Analysis of From The Spanish Of Pedro De Castro Y Anaya
William Cullen Bryant 1794 (Cummington) – 1878 (New York City)
Stay, rivulet, nor haste to leave
The lovely vale that lies around thee.
Why wouldst thou be a sea at eve,
When but a fount the morning found thee?
Born when the skies began to glow,
Humblest of all the rock's cold daughters,
No blossom bowed its stalk to show
Where stole thy still and scanty waters.
Now on thy stream the noonbeams look,
Usurping, as thou downward driftest,
Its crystal from the clearest brook,
Its rushing current from the swiftest.
Ah! what wild haste!--and all to be
A river and expire in ocean.
Each fountain's tribute hurries thee
To that vast grave with quicker motion.
Far better 'twere to linger still
In this green vale, these flowers to cherish,
And die in peace, an aged rill,
Than thus, a youthful Danube, perish.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF BGBG HIHI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111111 010111011 11110111 110101011 11010111 1001101110 11011111 111101010 1111011 1011101 11010101 110101010 11110111 010001010 1110101 111111010 11011101 0111110110 0101111 110101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 733 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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