Analysis of Serenade
Edgar Allan Poe 1809 (Boston) – 1849 (Baltimore)
So sweet the hour, so calm the time,
I feel it more than half a crime,
When Nature sleeps and stars are mute,
To mar the silence ev'n with lute.
At rest on ocean's brilliant dyes
An image of Elysium lies:
Seven Pleiades entranced in Heaven,
Form in the deep another seven:
Endymion nodding from above
Sees in the sea a second love.
Within the valleys dim and brown,
And on the spectral mountain's crown,
The wearied light is dying down,
And earth, and stars, and sea, and sky
Are redolent of sleep, as I
Am redolent of thee and thine
Enthralling love, my Adeline.
But list, O list,- so soft and low
Thy lover's voice tonight shall flow,
That, scarce awake, thy soul shall deem
My words the music of a dream.
Thus, while no single sound too rude
Upon thy slumber shall intrude,
Our thoughts, our souls- O God above!
In every deed shall mingle, love.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFFGGHHIIJJKKEE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 110101101 11111101 11010111 110101111 11110101 110101001 101001010 100101010 110101 10010101 01010101 0101101 01011101 01010101 11001111 11001101 11110 11111101 11010111 11011111 11010101 11110111 01110101 1011011101 010011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 928 |
Words | 161 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 25 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 655 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 158 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 04, 2023
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