Analysis of Stanzas For Music: They Say That Hope Is Happiness
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
They say that Hope is happiness;
But genuine Love must prize the past,
And Memory wakes the thoughts that bless:
They rose the first--they set the last;
And all that Memory loves the most
Was once our only Hope to be,
And all that Hope adored and lost
Hath melted into Memory.
Alas it is delusion all:
The future cheats us from afar,
Nor can we be what we recall,
Nor dare we think on what we are.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB CDCD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111100 110011101 010010111 11011101 011100101 111010111 01110101 11001100 01110101 01011101 1111111 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 404 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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