Analysis of The First Meeting
Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894
Last night for the first time, O Heart's Delight,
I held your hand a moment in my own,
The dearest moment which my soul has known,
Since I beheld and loved you at first sight.
I left you, and I wandered in the night,
Under the rain, beside the ocean's moan.
All was black dark, but in the north alone
There was a glimmer of the Northern Light.
My heart was singing like a happy bird,
Glad of the present, and from forethought free,
Save for one note amid its music heard:
God grant, whatever end of this may be,
That when the tale is told, the final word
May be of peace and benison to thee.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111101 1111010011 0101011111 111011111 1110110001 1001010101 1111100101 1101010101 1111010101 110100111 1111011101 111011111 1101110101 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 586 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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