Analysis of A Ballad of Trees and the Master.
Sidney Lanier 1842 (Macon) – 1881 (Lynn)
Into the woods my Master went,
Clean forspent, forspent.
Into the woods my Master came,
Forspent with love and shame.
But the olives they were not blind to Him,
The little gray leaves were kind to Him:
The thorn-tree had a mind to Him
When into the woods He came.
Out of the woods my Master went,
And He was well content.
Out of the woods my Master came,
Content with death and shame.
When Death and Shame would woo Him last,
From under the trees they drew Him last:
'Twas on a tree they slew Him - last
When out of the woods He came.
Baltimore, November, 1880.
| Scheme | AABBCCCB AABBDDDB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01011101 111 01011101 11101 1010101111 010110111 01110111 1010111 11011101 011110 11011101 101101 11011111 110011111 11011111 1110111 10010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 554 |
| Words | 112 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 09, 2023
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