Analysis of O, Struck Beneath The Laurel
George Edward Woodberry 1855 (Beverly) – 1930
O, STRUCK beneath the laurel, where the singing fountains are,
I saw from heaven falling the star of love afar;
O, slain in Eden’s bower nigh the bourn where lovers rest,
I fell upon the arrow that was buried in my breast;
Farewell the noble labor, farewell the silent pain,
Farewell the perfect honor of the long years lived in vain;
I lie upon the moorland where the wood and pasture meet,
And the cords that no man breaketh are bound about my feet.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101010101 1111010011101 11010101011101 11010101110011 10101010101 1001101011101 1101011010101 0011111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 456 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 355 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 84 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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