Analysis of Dartside, 1849
Charles Kingsley 1819 – 1875
I cannot tell what you say green leaves,
I cannot tell what you say :
But I know that there is a spirit in you,
And a word in you this day.
I cannot tell what you say, rosy rocks,
I cannot tell what you say :
But I know that there is a spirit in you,
And a word in you this day.
I cannot tell what you say, brown streams,
I cannot tell what you say :
But I know that in you too a spirit doth live,
And a word doth speak this day.
"Oh green is the colour of faith and truth,
And rose the colour of love and youth,
And brown of the fruitful clay.
Sweet Earth is faithful, and fruitful, and young,
And her bridal day shall come ere long,
And you shall know what the rocks and the streams
And the whispering woodlands say."
Scheme | xABA xABA cAxa ddaxxca |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111111 1101111 11111101001 0010111 1101111101 1101111 11111101001 0010111 110111111 1101111 111101101011 0011111 111011101 01011101 0110101 1111001001 001011111 0111101001 0010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 727 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 7 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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