Analysis of The Robin Redbreast
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
The year's grown songless! No glad pipings thrill
The hedge-row elms, whose wind-worn branches shower
Their leaves on the sere grass, where some late flower
In golden chalice hoards the sunlight still.
Our summer guests, whose raptures used to fill
Each apple-blossomed garth and honeyed bower,
Have in adversity's inclement hour
Abandoned us to bleak November's chill.
But hearken! Yonder russet bird among
The crimson clusters of the homely thorn
Still bubbles o'er with little rills of song--
A blending of sweet hope and resignation:
Even so, when life of love and youth is shorn,
One friend becomes its last, best consolation.
Scheme | ABBAABBA XCXDCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111111 01111111010 11101111110 010101011 1010111111 1101010110 10101010 0101110101 111010101 0101010101 11010110111 0101110010 10111110111 1101111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 639 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 254 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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