Analysis of The Remonstrance
Walter de la Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
I was at peace until you came
And set a careless mind aflame;
I lived in quiet; cold, content;
All longing in safe banishment,
Until your ghostly lips and eyes
Made wisdom unwise.
Naught was in me to tempt your feet
To seek a lodging. Quite forgot
Lay the sweet solitude we two
In childhood used to wander through;
Time's cold had closed my heart about,
And shut you out.
Well, and what then? . . . O vision grave,
Take all the little all I have!
Strip me of what in voiceless throught
Life's kept of life, unhoped, unsought! --
Reverie and dream that memory must
Hide deep in dust!
This only I say: Though cold and bare,
The haunted house you have chosen to share,
Still 'neath its walls the moonbeam goes
And trembles on the untended rose;
Still o'er its broken roof-tree rise
The starry arches of the skies;
And 'neath your lightest word shall be
The thunder of an ebbing sea.
Scheme | AABXCC XXDDEE XXBBFF GGHHCCII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 01010101 11010110 11001100 01110101 11001 11011111 11010101 1011011 0111101 11111101 0111 10111101 11010111 11110101 111111 1000111001 1101 110111101 0101111011 1111011 011011 110110111 01010101 01110111 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 887 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 8 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 170 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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