Analysis of The Wanderer
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
ON unknown paths I falter forth,
A homeless wand'rer in the world;
Doubtful I flit across the earth,
Whither by blowing fates I'm hurled.
I grope about the pathless wood;
I tread along the boundless plain;
And with the wind's capricious mood,
I sink and rise upon the main.
The lonely cloud within the sky,
That by conflicting gales is torn,
Sways to and fro no more than I,
Now eastward, and now westward borne.
The crested billow on the deep
Knows to which shore its current lies;
The blast--the realms which he must sweep;
The ant--the hill to which it hies.
The stork that seeks the tropic glows,
It knoweth whither it is bound;
And the revolving planet knows
The circle of its luminous round.
But I, confusèd, seek a way
In darkness here; I fall, I sigh,
Upon a broken wing I stray,
And all my help lies in a cry!
Scheme | XAXA XBXB CDCD EFEF GHGH ICIC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 10111101 0101001 10110101 10110111 1101011 11010101 01010101 11010101 01010101 11010111 11011111 11001101 01010101 11111101 01011111 01011111 01110101 1110111 00010101 010111001 1111101 01011111 01010111 01111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 804 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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