Analysis of In The Meadows At Mantua
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
But to have lain upon the grass
One perfect day, one perfect hour,
Beholding all things mortal pass
Into the quiet of green grass;
But to have lain and loved the sun,
Under the shadow of the trees,
To have been found in unison,
Once only, with the blessed sun;
Ah! in these flaring London nights,
Where midnight withers into morn,
How quiet a rebuke it writes
Across the sky of London nights!
Upon the grass at Mantua
These London nights were all forgot.
They wake for me again: but ah,
The meadow-grass at Mantua!
Scheme | AXAA BXBB CXCC DXXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11110101 101110110 01011101 01010111 11110101 1001101 11110100 1101011 10110101 1110011 11000111 01011101 01011100 11010101 11110111 0111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 507 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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