Analysis of Parting At Morning

Robert Browning 1812 (Camberwell) – 1889 (Venice)



Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,
And the sun looked over the mountain's rim:
And straight was a path of gold for him,
And the need of a world of men for me.


Scheme ABBA
Poetic Form Enclosed rhyme
Quatrain 
Metre 1011010101 0011100101 011011111 0011011111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 169
Words 38
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 124
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 12, 2023

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