Analysis of Stanzas Written On The Road Between Florence And Pisa
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story;
The days of our youth are the days of our glory;
And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty
Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.
What are garlands and crowns to the brow that is wrinkled?
'Tis but as a dead flower with May-dew besprinkled:
Then away with all such from the head that is hoary!
What care I for the wreaths that can only give glory?
O Fame!—if I e'er took delight in thy praises,
'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases,
Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover
She thought that I was not unworthy to love her.
There chiefly I sought thee, there only I found thee;
Her glance was the best of the rays that surround thee;
When it sparkled o'er aught that was bright in my story,
I knew it was love, and I felt it was glory.
Scheme | AAAA BBAA CCDD AAAA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111111011010 01110110111010 0010010111010 111110110110 111011011110 11101101111 1011111011110 1111011110110 1111101010110 111011111010 1110111011010 111111010110 110111110111 011011011011 11101011110110 111110111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 819 |
Words | 166 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 15, 2023
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