Analysis of Love In A Mist
Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837 (London) – 1909 (London)
Light love in a mist, by the midsummer moon misguided,
Scarce seen in the twilight garden if gloom insist,
Seems vainly to seek for a star whose gleam has derided
Light love in a mist.
All day in the sun, when the breezes do all they list,
His soft blue raiment of cloudlike blossom abided
Unrent and unwithered of winds and of rays that kissed.
Blithe-hearted or sad, as the cloud or the sun subsided,
Love smiled in the flower with a meaning whereof none wist
Save two that beheld, as a gleam that before them glided,
Light love in a mist.
| Scheme | abaB bab abaB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Roundel |
| Metre | 11001101101010 11001101101 11011101111010 11001 1100110101111 11111110010 1011101111 11011101101010 1100101010111 1111101101110 11001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 543 |
| Words | 104 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 27, 2023
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