Analysis of Oh fair enough are sky and plain
Alfred Edward Housman 1859 – 1936
Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
But I know fairer far:
Those are as beautiful again
That in the water are;
The pools and rivers wash so clean
The trees and clouds and air,
The like on earth was never seen,
And oh that I were there.
These are the thoughts I often think
As I stand gazing down
In act upon the cressy brink
To strip and dive and drown;
But in the golden-sanded brooks
And azure meres I spy
A silly lad that longs and looks
And wishes he were I.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDE FGFG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11011101 111101 11110001 100101 01010111 010101 01111101 011101 11011101 111101 01010101 110101 10010101 010111 01011101 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 468 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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