Analysis of Alone.



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
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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Lennox Amott

Organist in Spalding. Poet. Doctor of Music. more…

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