Analysis of Never The Time And The Place
Robert Browning 1812 (Camberwell) – 1889 (Venice)
Never the time and the place
And the loved one all together!
This path--how soft to pace!
This May -- what magic weather!
Where is the loved one's face?
In a dream that loved one's face meets mine,
But the house is narrow, the place is bleak
Where, outside, rain and wind combine
With a furtive ear, if I strive to speak,
With a hostile eye at my flushing cheek,
With a malice that marks each word, each sign!
O enemy sly and serpentine,
Uncoil thee from the waking man!
Do I hold the Past
Thus firm and fast
Yet doubt if the Future hold I can?
This path so soft to pace shall lead
Thro' the magic of May to herself indeed!
Or narrow if needs the house must be,
Outside are the storms and strangers: we
Oh, close, safe, warm sleep I and she, --
I and she!
Scheme | ABABACDCDDCCEFFEGHIIII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001001 00111010 111111 1111010 110111 001111111 1011100111 11110110 1010111111 1010111101 1010111111 11001010 1110101 11101 1101 111010111 11111111 10101110101 110110111 111010101 11111101 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 742 |
Words | 152 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 573 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 150 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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