Analysis of Beauty's Metempsychosis
William Watson 1858 (Burley in Wharfedale) – 1935 (Rottingdean)
That beauty such as thine
Can die indeed,
Were ordinance too wantonly malign:
No wit may reconcile so cold a creed
With beauty such as thine.
From wave and star and flower
Some effluence rare
Was lent thee, a divine but transient dower:
Thou yield'st it back from eyes and lips and hair
To wave and star and flower.
Shouldst thou to-morrow die,
Thou still shalt be
Found in the rose and met in all the sky:
And from the ocean's heart shalt sing to me,
Shouldst thou to-morrow die.
Scheme | ababa cdxdc EfefE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 110111 1101 0100110001 111101101 110111 1101010 11001 1110011101 11111110101 1101010 111101 1111 1001010101 0101011111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 474 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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