Analysis of All That's Past
Walter de la Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
Very old are the woods;
And the buds that break
Out of the brier's boughs,
When March winds wake,
So old with their beauty are--
Oh, no man knows
Through what wild centuries
Roves back the rose.
Very old are the brooks;
And the rills that rise
Where snow sleeps cold beneath
The azure skies
Sing such a history
Of come and gone,
Their every drop is as wise
As Solomon.
Very old are we men;
Our dreams are tales
Told in dim Eden
By Eve's nightingales;
We wake and whisper awhile,
But, the day gone by,
Silence and sleep like fields
Of amaranth lie.
Scheme | ABXBXCXCXDXDXXDE XXEAXFXF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101 00111 11011 1111 1111101 1111 111100 1101 101101 00111 111101 0101 110100 1101 11001111 1100 101111 10111 10110 111 1101001 10111 100111 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 555 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 213 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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