Analysis of The Meeting of the Waters
Thomas Moore 1779 (Dublin) – 1852 (Bromham)
There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet
As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet;
Oh! the last rays of feeling and life must depart,
Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
Yet it was not that nature had shed o'er the scene
Her purest of crystal and brightest of green;
'Twas not her soft magic of streamlet or hill,
Oh! no, -- it was something more exquisite still.
'Twas that friends, the beloved of my bosom, were near,
Who made every dear scene of enchantment more dear,
And who felt how the best charms of nature improve,
When we see them reflected from looks that we love.
Sweet vale of Avoca! how calm could I rest
In thy bosom of shade, with the friends I love best,
Where the storms that we feel in this cold world should cease,
And our hearts, like thy waters, be mingled in peace.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEXX FFGG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 111001101011 111011001101 101111001101 101111011111 1111110111001 01011001011 1101101111 11111011001 111001111001 1110011101011 011101111001 111101011111 111111111 011011101111 101111011111 0101111011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 832 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 160 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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