Analysis of The Hunter's Indian Dove
Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)
DARK is her cheek, but her blood’s rich blush
Comes through its dusk with a sunset flush,
While joy, like a prairie-bee, slaketh its drouth
At the red honey-cup of her smiling mouth,
And her wild eyes glow, like meteors, there
’Neath the streaming storm of her night-black hair.
And ever I pride in my forest choice,
The more while I list to her bird-like voice,
Warbling old songs in her own wild speech,
But with this new burden still added to each;
“Who’ll pity, who’ll comfort the dark wood-dove
When the white hawk leaves her to die of love?
O then, by the artless tears that rise
’Neath the downcast lids of her gleaming eyes—
By the truthfully tender and touching grace
That boding passion then lends to her face—
I swear, in the very wild spirit of love,
Never to leave her, my Indian dove!
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFF GGHHFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110111 11111011 1110101111 10110110101 0011111001 1010110111 0101101101 0111110111 1001100111 11111011011 1101100111 1011101111 11101111 101110101 10100100101 111011101 11001011011 1011011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 807 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 310 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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