Analysis of The Wild Gazelle
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
The wild gazelle on Judah's hills,
Exulting yet may bound,
And drink from all the living rills
That gush on holy ground:
Its airy step and glorious eye
May glance in tameless transport by.: -
A step as fleet, an eye more bright,
Hath Judah witness'd there;
And o'er her scenes of lost delight
Inhabitants more fair,
The cedars wave on Lebanon,
But Judah's statelier maids are gone!
More blest each palm that shades those plains
Than Israel's scatter'd race:
For, taking root, it there remains
In solitary grace:
It cannot quit the place of birth,
It will not live in other earth.
But we must wander witheringly,
In other lands to die;
And where our fathers' ashes be,
Our own may never lie:
Our temple hath not left a stone.
And Mockery sits on Salem's throne.
Scheme | ABABCC DEDEXX FGFGHH XCXCII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101111 010111 01110101 111101 110101001 1101011 01111111 110101 010011101 010011 01011100 111111 11111111 110101 11011101 01001 11010111 11110101 111101 010111 011010101 1011101 101011101 010011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 768 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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