Analysis of Madonna
Alfred Austin 1835 (Leeds) – 1913 (Ashford)
Let me, calm face, remain
For ever in these sweet sequestered nooks,
Remote from pain,
Where leafy laurustinus overlooks
The blue abounding main.
Ne'er will I crave, I vow,
Your loveliness despite, that we may stand
More nigh than now;
You, with the fresh-plucked roses in your hand,
And I with inclined brow.
With air, and sea, and sky,
And penetrative music on the beach,
All that is high,
And far, and holy, and beyond our reach,
I you identify.
Then, lady, let me stay,
Here where no storm nor surge of discontent
Can find its way;
Hearkening your holy admonitions, blent
With murmurs from the bay.
Scheme | ABABA CDCDC EFEFE GXGDG |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111101 1100110101 0111 110110 010101 111111 11011111 1111 1101110011 011011 110101 0110101 1111 01010001101 11010 110111 1111111001 1111 11100101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 591 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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