Analysis of Ages Ago
Walter De La Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
Launcelot loved Guinevere,
Ages and ages ago,
Beautiful as a bird was she,
Preening its wings in a cypress tree,
Happy in sadness, she and he,
They loved each other so.
Helen of Troy was beautiful
As tender flower in May,
Her loveliness from the towers looked down,
With the sweet moon for silver crown,
Over the walls of Troy Town,
Hundreds of years away.
Cleopatra, Egypt's Queen,
Was wondrous kind to ken,
As when the stars in the dark sky
Like buds on thorny branches lie,
So seemed she too to Antony,
That age-gone prince of men.
The Pyramids are old stones,
Scarred is that grey face,
That by the greenness of Old Nile
Gazes with an unchanging smile,
Man with all mystery to beguile
And give his thinking grace.
Scheme | ABCACB XDEEED XFGGCF XHIIIH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011 1001001 10010111 101100101 10010101 111101 10111100 1101001 01101011 10111101 1001111 101101 010101 110111 11010011 11110101 11111100 111111 0100111 11111 11010111 10110101 111100101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 703 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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