Analysis of Changed.
Charles Stuart Calverley 1831 (Martley) – 1884
I know not why my soul is rack'd
Why I ne'er smile as was my wont:
I only know that, as a fact,
I don't.
I used to roam o'er glen and glade
Buoyant and blithe as other folk:
And not unfrequently I made
A joke.
A minstrel's fire within me burn'd,
I'd sing, as one whose heart must break,
Lay upon lay: I nearly learn'd
To shake.
All day I sang; of love, of fame,
Of fights our fathers fought of yore,
Until the thing almost became
A bore.
I cannot sing the old songs now!
It is not that I deem them low;
'Tis that I can't remember how
They go.
I could not range the hills till high
Above me stood the summer moon:
And as to dancing, I could fly
As soon.
The sports, to which with boyish glee
I sprang erewhile, attract no more;
Although I am but sixty-three
Or four.
Nay, worse than that, I've seem'd of late
To shrink from happy boyhood - boys
Have grown so noisy, and I hate
A noise.
They fright me, when the beech is green,
By swarming up its stem for eggs:
They drive their horrid hoops between
My legs:-
It's idle to repine, I know;
I'll tell you what I'll do instead:
I'll drink my arrowroot, and go
To bed.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MHMHNONO PQPQJRJR |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (35%) Etheree (33%) |
Metre | 11111111 11111111 11011101 11 111110101 10011101 01111 01 01100111 11111111 10111101 11 11111111 111010111 0101101 01 11010111 11111111 11110101 11 11110111 01110101 01110111 11 01111101 1110111 1111101 11 11111111 1111011 11110011 01 11110111 11011111 11110101 11 1101111 11111101 1111001 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,087 |
Words | 229 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 166 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 24, 2023
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