Analysis of The Rocks



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
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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William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist of the 19th century. more…

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