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
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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Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin DL was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896 upon the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. more…

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