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!


Scheme ABCCBAAAA ADEEDAFFA
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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