Analysis of Uhland's
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
There were three cavaliers that went over the Rhine,
And gayly they called to the hostess for wine.
"And where is thy daughter? We would she were here,--
Go fetch us that maiden to gladden our cheer!"
"I'll fetch thee thy goblets full foaming," she said,
"But in yon darkened chamber the maiden lies dead."
And lo! as they stood in the doorway, the white
Of a shroud and a dead shrunken face met their sight.
Then the first cavalier breathed a pitiful sigh,
And the throb of his heart seemed to melt in his eye,
And he cried, "Hadst thou lived, O my pretty white rose,
I ween I had loved thee and wed thee--who knows?"
The next cavalier drew aside a small space,
And stood to the wall with his hands to his face;
And this was the heart-cry that came with his tears:
"I loved her, I loved her these many long years!"
But the third cavalier kneeled him down in that place,
And, as it were holy, he kissed that dead face:
"I loved thee long years, and I love thee to-day,
And I'll love thee, dear maiden, forever and aye!"
Scheme | AAXX BBCC DDEE FFXX FFXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (40%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10101111001 0111101011 01111011101 111110110101 1111111011 101101001011 0111100101 101001101111 10101101001 001111111011 011111111011 11111101111 0101101011 01101111111 01101111111 11011011011 10101111011 01101011111 11111011111 011111001001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,008 |
Words | 204 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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