Analysis of Hast Thou Forgotten Me?
Philip Joseph Holdsworth 1851 (Sydney) – 1902
HAST thou forgotten me? the days are dark—
Light ebbs from heaven, and songless soars the lark—
Vexed like my heart, loud moans the unquiet sea—
Hast thou forgotten me?
Hast thou forgotten me? O dead delight
Whose dreams and memories torture me to-night—
O love—my life! O sweet—so fair to see—
Hast thou forgotten me?
Hast thou forgotten? Lo, if one should say—
Noontide were night, or night were flaming day—
Grief blinds mine eyes, I know not which it be!
Hast thou forgotten me?
Hast thou forgotten? Ah, if Death should come,
Close my sad eyes, and charm my song-bird dumb—
Tired of strange woes—my fate were hailed with glee—
Hast thou forgotten me?
Hast thou forgotten me? What joy have I?
A dim blown bird beneath an alien sky,—
O that on mighty pinions I could flee—
Hast thou forgotten me?
Hast thou forgotten? Yea, Love’s horoscope
Is blurred with tears and suffering beyond Hope—
Ah, like dead leaves forsaken of the tree,
Thou hast forgotten me.
Scheme | aabB ccbB ddbB eebB ffbB ggbb |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101010111 1111001101 111111011 110101 1101011101 11010010111 1111111111 110101 1101011111 101110101 1111111111 110101 1101011111 1111011111 10111110111 110101 1101011111 01110111001 111101111 110101 110101110 11110100011 1111010101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,093 |
Words | 173 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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