Analysis of Edenland
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1826 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire) – 1887 (Shortlands, London)
YOU remember where in starlight
We two wandered hand in hand,
While the night-flowers poured their perfume,
And night-airs the still earth fanned?--
There I, walking yester even,
Felt like a ghost in Edenland.
I remember all you told me,
Looking up as we did stand,
While my heart poured out its perfume,
Like the night-flowers in your hand;
And the path where we two wandered
Seemed not like earth but Edenland.
Now the stars shine paler, colder
Night-flowers die without your hand;
Yet my spirit walks beside you
Everywhere, unsought, unbanned.
And I wait till we shall wander
Under the stars of Edenland.
Scheme | ABCBXA XBCBXA DBXADA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 1110101 101101101 0110111 1110110 110101 10101111 1011111 11111101 10110011 00111110 111111 1011110 11010111 11101011 1011 01111110 100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 615 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 160 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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