Analysis of Alone.
Lennox Amott 1861 – 1909
Alone in my chamber, forsaken, unsought,
My spirit's enveloped in shadows of night,
Is there no one to give me a smile or a thought?
Is there none to restore to me faded delight?
The zephyrs disport with a light-bosomed song,
And the joy-laden songsters flit over the lea--
Yet the hours of the spring as they hurry along
Bring nothing but sadness and sighing to me!
There were friends--but their love is departed and dead,
And alone must the tear-drop disconsolate start,
All the beauty of Life, all its sweetness is fled,
Oh, who shall unburden this weight at my heart!
Scheme | AAAA BCBC AAAA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 0101100101 1100100111 111111101101 111101111001 010110111 00110111001 1010101111001 11011001011 101111101001 001101111 101011111011 11101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 566 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 12, 2023
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