Analysis of A Rondeau of College Rhymes
Henry Van Dyke 1852 (Germantown, Pennsylvania) – 1933 (Princeton, New Jersey)
Our college rhymes,--how light they seem,
Like little ghosts of love's young dream
That led our boyish hearts away
From lectures and from books, to stray
By flowery mead and flowing stream!
There's nothing here, in form or theme,
Of thought sublime or art supreme:
We would not have the critic weigh
Our college rhymes.
Yet if, perchance, a slender beam
Of feeling's glow or fancy's gleam
Still lingers in the lines we lay
At Alma Mater's feet today,
The touch of Nature may redeem
Our college rhymes.
Scheme | aabba aabC aabbaC |
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Poetic Form | Rondeau |
Metre | 101011111 11011111 111010101 11001111 110010101 11010111 11011101 11110101 10101 11010101 111111 11000111 1101101 01110101 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 495 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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