Analysis of On Parting
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
The kiss, dear maid! thy lip has left
Shall never part from mine,
Till happier hours restore the gift
Untainted back to thine.
Thy parting glance, which fondly beams,
An equal love may see:
The tear that from thing eyelid streams
Can weep no change in me.
I ask no pledge to make me blest
In gazing when alone;
Nor one memorial for a breast,
Whose thoughts are all thine own.
Nor need I write to tell the tale
My pen were doubly weak:
Oh! what can idle words avail,
Unless the heart could speak?
By day or night, in weal or woe,
That heart, no longer free,
Must bear the love it cannot show,
And silent ache for thee.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDE FGFG HCHC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01111111 110111 1100100101 010111 11011101 110111 0111111 111101 11111111 010101 110100101 111111 11111101 110101 11110101 010111 11110111 111101 11011101 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 617 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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