Analysis of Tintagel

Muriel Stuart 1885 – 1967



DEAD man! will you ride with me,
   As you rode that night of yore,
Will you ride with me, once more
   To Tintagel by the sea?

When those savage words were said--
   Words that challenged destiny--
To Tintagel by the sea,
   Through the sweating night we fled!

Hearts, that raged with storm and sea,
   Thundered through the scream of rain;
Laugh and ride with me again,
   Take my kisses thirstily!

Clutch the cloak that flies apart,
   Grip the stallion with your knee:
Let my wild, black tresses be
   Once more pinioned on your heart.

Dream is dead, and dead are we:
   But the dead rise up again!
Once more through the night and rain,
   Dead man! will you ride with me?


Scheme AbbA caAc adex faaf aedA
Poetic Form Quatrain  (60%)
Etheree  (25%)
Metre 1111111 1111111 1111111 11101 1110101 1110100 11101 1010111 1111101 1010111 1011101 11101 1011101 1010111 1111101 111111 1110111 1011101 1110101 1111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 680
Words 123
Sentences 9
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 100
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Muriel Stuart

Muriel Stuart was The daughter of a Scottish barrister was a poet particularly concerned with the topic of sexual politics though she first wrote poems about World War I She later gave up poetry writing her last work was published in the 1930s She was born Muriel Stuart Irwin She was hailed by Hugh MacDiarmid as the best woman poet of the Scottish Renaissance although she was not Scottish but English Despite this his comment led to her inclusion in many Scottish anthologies Thomas Hardy described her poetry as Superlatively good Her most famous poem In the Orchard is entirely dialogs and in no kind of verse form which makes it innovative for its time She does use rhyme a mixture of half-rhyme and rhyming couplets abab form Other famous poems of hers are The Seed Shop The Fools and Man and his Makers Muriel also wrote a gardening book called Gardeners Nightcap 1938 which was later reprinted by Persephone Books more…

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