Analysis of Stanzas For Music
Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894
I loved a little maiden
In the golden years gone by;
She lived in a mill, as they all do
(There is doubtless a reason why).
But she faded in the autumn
When the leaves began to fade,
And the night before she faded,
These words to me she said:
'Do not forget me, Henry,
Be noble and brave and true;
But I must not bide, for the world is wide,
And the sky above is blue.'
So I said farewell to my darling,
And sailed away and came back;
And the good ship Jane was in port again,
And I found that they all loved Jack.
But Polly and I were sweethearts,
As all the neighbours know,
Before I met with the mill-girl
Twenty years ago.
So I thought I would go and see her,
But alas, she had faded too!
She could not bide, for the world was wide,
And the sky above was blue.
And now I can only remember
The maid—the maid of the mill,
And Polly, and one or two others
In the churchyard over the hill.
And I sadly ask the question,
As I weep in the yew-tree's shade
With my elbow on one of their tombstones,
'Ah, why did they all of them fade?'
And the answer I half expected
Comes from the solemn yew,
'They could none of them bide, for the world was wide,
And the sky above was blue.'
Scheme | abcbxdexxcfc xgxgxhxhicfC ijxjadxdecfC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010 0010111 110011111 11100101 11100010 1010111 00101110 111111 1101110 1100101 1111110111 0010111 11111110 0101011 0011110101 01111111 1100101 11011 01111011 10101 111111010 10111101 111110111 0010111 011110010 0101101 010011110 0011001 01101010 11100111 11111111 11111111 001011010 110101 11111110111 0010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,149 |
Words | 244 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 12, 12 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 296 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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