Analysis of Ballades V - Of His Choice of a Sepulchre

Andrew Lang 1844 (Selkirk, Scottish Borders) – 1912 (Banchory)



HERE I ’d come when weariest!  
     Here the breast  
Of the Windberg’s tufted over  
Deep with bracken; here his crest  
     Takes the west,
Where the wide-winged hawk doth hover.  

Silent here are lark and plover;  
     In the cover  
Deep below, the cushat best  
Loves his mate, and croons above  
     O’er their nest,  
Where the wide-winged hawk doth hover.  

Bring me here, Life’s tired-out guest,  
     To the blest  
Bed that waits the weary rover,—
Here should failure be confest;  
     Ends my quest,  
Where the wide-winged hawk doth hover!  

Friend, or stranger kind, or lover,  
Ah, fulfil a last behest,
     Let me rest  
Where the wide-winged hawk doth hover!


Scheme aabaaB bbaxaB aabaaB baaB
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 101 1011010 1110111 101 10111110 10111010 0010 101011 1110101 111 10111110 11111011 101 11101010 111011 111 10111110 11101110 110101 111 10111110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 690
Words 111
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6, 4
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 119
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Andrew Lang

Andrew Richard Lang FRS CBE was a British scientist and crystallographer. more…

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