Analysis of Through The Metidja To Abd-El-Kadr
Robert Browning 1812 (Camberwell) – 1889 (Venice)
Abd-el-Kadr was an Arab Chief of Algiers who resisted the French in 1833.]
As I ride, as I ride,
With a full heart for my guide,
So its tide rocks my side,
As I ride, as I ride,
That, as I were double-eyed,
He, in whom our Tribes confide,
Is descried, ways untried
As I ride, as I ride.
As I ride, as I ride
To our Chief and his Allied,
Who dares chide my heart's pride
As I ride, as I ride?
Or are witnesses denied---
Through the desert waste and wide
Do I glide unespied
As I ride, as I ride?
As I ride, as I ride,
When an inner voice has cried,
The sands slide, nor abide
(As I ride, as I ride)
O'er each visioned homicide
That came vaunting (has he lied?)
To reside---where he died,
As I ride, as I ride.
As I ride, as I ride,
Ne'er has spur my swift horse plied,
Yet his hide, streaked and pied,
As I ride, as I ride,
Shows where sweat has sprung and dried,
---Zebra-footed, ostrich-thighed---
How has vied stride with stride
As I ride, as I ride!
As I ride, as I ride,
Could I loose what Fate has tied,
Ere I pried, she should hide
(As I ride, as I ride)
All that's meant me---satisfied
When the Prophet and the Bride
Stop veins I'd have subside
As I ride, as I ride!
| Scheme | x AaaAaaaA AaaAaaaA AaaAaaaA AaaAaaaA AaaAaaaA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111011011010010 111111 1011111 111111 111111 1110101 10110101 11101 111111 111111 11010101 111111 111111 1110001 1010101 1111 111111 111111 1110111 011101 111111 101110 111111 101111 111111 111111 1111111 111101 111111 1111101 1010101 111111 111111 111111 1111111 111111 111111 111110 1010001 111101 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 1,160 |
| Words | 247 |
| Sentences | 14 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 41 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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