Analysis of At Glan-y-Wern
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
White-robed against the threefold white
Of shutter, glass and curtains' lace,
She flashed into the evening light
The brilliance of her gipsy face:
I saw the evening in her light.
Clear, from the soft hair to the mouth,
Her ardent face made manifest
The sultry beauty of the South:
Below, a red rose, climbing, pressed
Against the roses of her mouth.
So, in the window's threefold white,
O'ertrailed with foliage like a bower,
She seemed, against the evening light,
Amongst the flowers herself a flower,
A tiger-lily sheathed in white.
Scheme | ABABA CDCDC AEAEA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1101011 11010101 11010101 0101011 11010001 11011101 0101110 01010101 01011101 01010101 100111 11101010 11010101 0101001010 01010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 528 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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