Analysis of Melody
Alice Cary 1820 (Mount Healthy) – 1871
Where white in the jungles
Lay bones of the dead,
All night the wild lioness
Howled as she fed:
The wind hot and sultry.
And scarcely awake.
Through the dust of the desert-sand
Crept like a snake.
But a beacon gleamed redly
The blue rocks along,
Where a golden-tressed maiden
Sat singing her son:
With her passionate warble
The white sea-mist stirred,
And a boat to the desert shore
Flew like a bird.
The deep burning blushes
That cover her brow,
In a lover’s embraces
Are all hidden now.
Wild rover of ocean,
Proud scorner of storms,
Guard fondly the treasure
Thus clasped in thine arms.
As the eyes of the pilgrim.
Wherever he be,
Turn, down-trodden city
Of beauty, to thee:
Turn thou, in life’s pauses
Of dimness and care.
To the sweet love of woman,
That all things will dare!
Scheme | ABABCDXD EXFFEGXG HIXIFXXX XCCCHJFJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110010 11101 11011 1111 011010 01001 10110101 1101 101011 01101 1010110 11001 1010010 01111 00110101 1101 011010 11001 0010010 11101 110110 1111 110010 11011 1011010 01011 111010 11011 110110 1101 1011110 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 783 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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