Analysis of My Lady Of Castle Grand
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
Gray is the palace where she dwells,
Grimly the poplars stand
There by the window where she sits,
My Lady of Castle Grand.
There does she bide the livelong day,
Grim as the poplars are,
Ever her gaze goes reaching out,
Steady, but vague and far.
Bright burn the fires in the castle hall,
Brightly the fire-dogs stand;
But cold is the body and cold the heart
Of my Lady of Castle Grand.
Blue are the veins in her lily-white hands,
Blue are the veins in her brow;
Thin is the line of her blue drawn lips,
Who would be haughty now?
Pale is the face at the window-pane,
Pale as the pearl on her breast,
'Roderick, love, wilt come again?
Fares he to east or west?'
The shepherd pipes to the shepherdess,
The bird to his mate in the tree,
And ever she sighs as she hears their song,
'Nobody sings for me.'
The scullery maids have swains enow
Who lead them the way of love,
But lonely and loveless their mistress sits
At her window up above.
Loveless and lonely she waits and waits,
The saddest in all the land;
Ah, cruel and lasting is love-blind pride,
My Lady of Castle Grand.
Scheme | abcB xdxd xbxb xexe fgxg ahxh fici xbxB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11010111 10011 11010111 1101101 1111011 11011 10011101 101101 1101000101 1001011 1110100101 11101101 1101001011 1101001 110110111 111101 110110101 1101101 1011101 111111 0101101 01111001 0101111111 1111 011111 1110111 1100101101 1010101 100101101 0100101 1100101111 1101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,049 |
Words | 208 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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