Analysis of Spring Bereaved 3
William Henry Drummond 1854 – 1907
ALEXIS, here she stay'd; among these pines,
Sweet hermitress, she did alone repair;
Here did she spread the treasure of her hair,
More rich than that brought from the Colchian mines.
She set her by these musked eglantines,
--The happy place the print seems yet to bear:
Her voice did sweeten here thy sugar'd lines,
To which winds, trees, beasts, birds, did lend their ear.
Me here she first perceived, and here a morn
Of bright carnations did o'erspread her face;
Here did she sigh, here first my hopes were born,
And I first got a pledge of promised grace:
But ah! what served it to be happy so?
Sith passed pleasures double but new woe?
Scheme | ABBAABACDEDEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101110111 11110101 1111010101 111111011 1101111 0101011111 0111011101 1111111111 1111010101 110101101 1111111101 0111011101 1111111101 111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 653 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 496 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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