Analysis of The Rocks
William Makepeace Thackeray 1811 – 1863
I was a timid little antelope;
My home was in the rocks, the lonely rocks.
I saw the hunters scouring on the plain;
I lived among the rocks, the lonely rocks.
I was a-thirsty in the summer-heat;
I ventured to the tents beneath the rocks.
Zuleikah brought me water from the well;
Since then I have been faithless to the rocks.
I saw her face reflected in the well;
Her camels since have marched into the rocks.
I look to see her image in the well;
I only see my eyes, my own sad eyes.
My mother is alone among the rocks.
Scheme | XA XA XA BA BA BXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101010 1110010101 11010100101 1101010101 1101000101 1101010101 11110101 111111101 1101010001 0101110101 1111010001 1101111111 1101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 515 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 67 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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