Analysis of Alone
Edgar Allan Poe 1809 (Boston) – 1849 (Baltimore)
From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101111 11001111 11011111 11010101 101111110 110111010 11111011 01111101 1011001 10110111 110011101 01001111 10101010 10111010 1011111 0110111 1010001 1111101 1010001 0011101 10111011 1010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 873 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 551 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 147 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 04, 2023
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