Analysis of Chose Vue

Francis Thompson 1859 (City of Preston, Lancashire) – 1907 (London)



A metrical caprice.

Up she rose, fair daughter--well she was graced
As a cloud her going, stept from her chair,
As a summer-soft cloud, in her going paced,
Down dropped her riband-band, and all her waving hair
Shook like loosened music cadent to her waist;--
Lapsing like music, wavery as water,
Slid to her waist.


Scheme X ABABAXA
Poetic Form
Metre 010001 1111101111 1010101101 10101100101 11011010101 1110101101 101101110 1101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 315
Words 58
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 7
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 122
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Francis Thompson

The Rt Rev Francis William Banahene Thompson was Bishop of Accra from 1983 to 1996. more…

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