Analysis of Natural Magic
Robert Browning 1812 (Camberwell) – 1889 (Venice)
All I can say is--I saw it!
The room was as bare as your hand.
I locked in the swarth little lady,--I swear,
From the head to the foot of her--well, quite as bare!
'No Nautch shall cheat me,' said I, 'taking my stand
At this bolt which I draw!' And this bolt--I withdraw it,
And there laughs the lady, not bare, but embowered
With--who knows what verdure, o'erfruited, o'erflowered?
Impossible! Only--I saw it!
All I can sing is--I feel it!
This life was as blank as that room;
I let you pass in here. Precaution, indeed?
Walls, ceiling, and floor,--not a chance for a weed!
Wide opens the entrance: where's cold, now, where's gloom?
No May to sow seed here, no June to reveal it,
Behold you enshrined in these blooms of your bringing,
These fruits of your bearing--nay, birds of your winging!
A fairy-tale! Only--I feel it!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 01111111 11001101011 101101101111 11111111011 1111110111011 0110101111 1111111 010010111 11111111 11111111 11110101001 11001101101 11001011111 111111111011 011010111110 111110111110 010110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 817 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 305 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 25, 2023
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