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.


Scheme AABBCCDD
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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George Edward Woodberry

George Edward Woodberry, Litt. D., LL. D. was an American literary critic and poet. more…

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