Analysis of Unity

Alfred Noyes 1880 (Wolverhampton) – 1958 (Isle of Wight)



Heart of my heart, the world is young;
Love lies hidden in every rose!
Every song that the skylark sung
Once, we thought, must come to a close:
Now we know the spirit of song,
Song that is merged in the chant of the whole,
Hand in hand as we wander along,
What should we doubt of the years that roll?

Heart of my heart, we cannot die!
Love triumphant in flower and tree,
Every life that laughs at the sky
Tells us nothing can cease to be:
One, we are one with the song to-day,
One with the clover that scents the world,
One with the Unknown, far away,
One with the stars, when earth grows old.

Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind,
One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea,
One in many, O broken and blind,
One as the waves are at one with the sea!
Ay! When life seems scattered apart,
Darkens, ends as a tale that is told,
One, we are one, O heart of my heart,
One, still one, while the world grows old.


Scheme AXAXBCBC DEDEFXFG HEHEIGIG
Poetic Form
Metre 11110111 111001001 10011011 11111101 11101011 1111001101 101111001 111110111 11111101 101001001 100111101 11101111 111110111 110101101 11001101 11011111 1111111101 11011111001 101011001 1101111101 11111001 11101111 111111111 11110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 939
Words 191
Sentences 11
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 232
Words per stanza (avg) 62
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 08, 2023

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Alfred Noyes

Alfred Noyes was an English poet best known for his ballads The Highwayman 1906 and The Barrel Organ more…

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