Analysis of Where My True Love Lives - A Ballade
Where my True Love Lives - A Ballade
Seared upon my soul for ever more
That break of dawn upon a summer morn
As I made my way along that rocky shore
Strewn with remnants from a raging storm
When through a rising mist of gray - so forlorn
I saw a badly broken sinking ship
With canvas wings of white so sadly torn
There beneath those majestic purple cliffs
And as that mighty fearless ocean roared
With salty breezy breath so filled with scorn
I saw it rise up from the ocean floor
Wrapped in a velvet coat so frayed and worn
A red, red, rose impaled upon a thorn
Where passion bled like rain from ruby lips
Upon a vivid memory reborn
There beneath those majestic purple cliffs
The wind - it whispered - in my ear - Lenore
As black clouds in the sky began to form
Into a face I’d never seen before
With hollow cheeks that endless tears adorned
That fell in frozen crystal drops so foreign.....
Then from those clouds his face began to slip
And I cried the tears of a woman scorned
There beneath those majestic purple cliffs
Lenore, the love he would forever mourn
That from his pen on page in words did drip
As I read his poetry and love was born
There beneath those majestic purple cliffs.
A tribute to: Edger Allen Poe and his Lenore
Scheme | xabacbdbE xbabbxbE acafxdfE bdbE a |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111001 101111101 1111010101 11111011101 111010101 11010111101 1101010101 1101111101 1011010101 0111010101 1101011111 1111110101 1001011101 0111010101 1101111101 0101010011 1011010101 0111001101 1110010111 0101110101 1101110101 11010101110 1111110111 0110110101 1011010101 0101110101 1111110111 11111000111 1011010101 0101101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,230 |
Words | 238 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 8, 8, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 196 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on June 14, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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