Analysis of White Magic
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
Against the world I closed my heart,
And, half in pride and half in fear,
I said to Love and Lust: Depart;
None enters here.
A gipsy witch has glided in,
She takes her seat beside my fire;
Her eyes are innocent of sin,
Mine of desire.
She holds me with an unknown spell,
She folds me in her heart's embrace;
If this be love, I cannot tell:
I watch her face.
Her sombre eyes are happier
Than any joy that e'er had voice;
Since I am happiness to her,
I too rejoice.
And I have closed the door again,
Against the world I close my heart;
I hold her with my spell; in vain
Would she depart.
I hold her with a surer spell,
Beyond her magic, and above:
If hers be love, I cannot tell,
But mine is love.
Scheme | AXAX BCBC DEDE CFCF XAXA DGDG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 01011111 01010101 11110101 1101 0111100 110101110 01110011 11010 11111011 11100101 11111101 1101 0111100 110111011 11110010 1101 01110101 01011111 11011101 1101 11010101 01010001 10111101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 685 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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