Analysis of Renée
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
Rain, and the night, and the old familiar door,
And the archway dim, and the roadway desolate;
Faces that pass, and faces, and more, yet more:
Renée! come, for I wait.
Pallid out of the darkness, adorably white,
Pale as the spirit of rain, with the night in her hair,
Renée undulates, shadow-like, under the light,
Into the outer air.
Mournful, beautiful, calm with that vague unrest,
Sad with that sensitive, vaguely ironical mouth;
Eyes that flame with the loveliest, deadliest
Fire of her passionate youth;
Mournful, beautiful, sister of night and rain,
Elemental, fashioned of tears and fire,
Ever desiring, ever desired in vain,
Mother of vain desire;
Renée comes to me, she the sorceress, Fate,
Subtly insensible, softly invincible, she:
Renée, who waits for another, for whom I wait,
To linger a moment with me.
Scheme | AXAB CDCD XXXX EFEF BGBG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) |
Metre | 10010010101 0011001100 10110100111 111111 101101011 1101011101001 1110111001 010101 10100111101 1111001001001 111101100 10101001 10100101101 0101011010 1001001001001 1011010 111111011 10001001001001 111110101111 11001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 815 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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