Analysis of A Silent Wood
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal 1829 (London) – 1862 (London)
O silent wood, I enter thee
With a heart so full of misery
For all the voices from the trees
And the ferns that cling about my knees.
In thy darkest shadow let me sit
When the grey owls about thee flit;
There will I ask of thee a boon,
That I may not faint or die or swoon.
Gazing through the gloom like one
Whose life and hopes are also done,
Frozen like a thing of stone
I sit in thy shadow – but not alone.
Can God bring back the day when we two stood
Beneath the clinging trees in that dark wood?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 101111100 11010101 001110111 01101111 10110111 11111101 111111111 1010111 11011101 1010111 110111101 1111011111 0101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 497 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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