Analysis of On Finding A Fan
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
In one who felt as once he felt
This might, perhaps, have fann'd the flame;
But now his heart no more will melt,
Because that heart is not the same.
As when the ebbing flames are low,
The aid which once improved their light,
And bade them burn with fiercer glow,
Now quenches all their blaze in night.
Thus has it been with passion's fires-
As many a boy and girl remembers
While every hope of love expires,
Extinguish'd with the dying embers.
The first, though not a spark survive,
Some careful hand may teach to barn;
The last, alas l can ne'er survive;
No touch can bid its warmth reform
Or, if it chance to wake again.
Not always doom 'd its heat to smother,
It sheds (so wayward fates ordain)
Its former warmth around another.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EEEE FXFX XGXG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01111111 11011101 11111111 01111101 11010111 01110111 01111101 11011101 11111110 1100101010 1100111010 010101010 01110101 11011111 010111101 11111101 11111101 111111110 11110101 110101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 722 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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