Analysis of Margaret Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacock 1785 (Weymouth, Dorset) – 1866
Long night succeeds thy little day;
Oh blighted blossom! can it be,
That this grey stone, and grassy clay,
Have clos'd our anxious care of thee?
The half-form'd speech of artless thought
That spoke a mind beyond thy years;
The song, the dance, by nature taught;
The sunny smiles, the transient tears;
The symmetry of face and form,
The eye with light and life replete;
The little heart so fondly warm,
The voice so musically sweet;
These, lost to hope, in memory yet
Around the hearts that lov'd thee cling,
Shadowing, with long and vain regret,
The too fair promise of thy spring.
Scheme | ABAB CXCX DEDE FGFG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11011101 11010111 11110101 111010111 0111111 11010111 01011101 01010101 01001101 01110101 01011101 0111001 111101001 01011111 100110101 01110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 574 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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