Analysis of Adventure
Out of the wood my White Knight came:
His eyes were bright with a bitter flame,
As I clung to his stirrup leather;
For I was only a dreaming lad,
Yet oh, what a wonderful faith I had!
And the song in my heart was never so glad,
As we took to the trail together.
"Friends and lovers, good-bye," I said;
Never once did I turn my head,
Though wickedly wild the weather
min were the rover's rags and scars,
And the rover's bed beneath the stars,
But never the shadow of prison bars,
As we ranged the world together.
Dreary and darkling was the trail,
But my Knight was clad in a gleaming mail,
And he plucked from his plume a feather.
And oh how foolishly proud was I!
"I'll wear it," I told him, "till I die;
Freemen we'll be of sea and sky,
To the ends of the earth together."
Yet now I know by my failing breath
I'm ripe for the last adventure, Death,
And I've reached the end of my tether:
But my Knight of the shining mail is there,
And his eyes are bright and he bids me dare:
So into the Dark let's boldly fare,
Into the Dark . . . together.
Scheme | AABCCCB DDBEEEB FFBGGGB HHBIIIB |
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Poetic Form | Burns stanza (68%) |
Metre | 11011111 110110101 111111010 111100101 1110100111 00101111011 111101010 10101111 10111111 11001010 10010101 001010101 110011101 11101010 1001101 1111100101 011111010 011100111 111111111 10111101 101101010 111111101 111010101 011011110 1111010111 0111101111 101011101 0101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,025 |
Words | 211 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 197 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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