Analysis of Oh fair enough are sky and plain



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
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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Alfred Edward Housman

Alfred Edward Housman, usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.  more…

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