Analysis of In the Black Forest
Amy Levy 1861 (London) – 1889 (London)
I lay beneath the pine trees,
And looked aloft, where, through
The dusky, clustered tree-tops,
Gleamed rent, gay rifts of blue.
I shut my eyes, and a fancy
Fluttered my sense around:
"I lie here dead and buried,
And this is churchyard ground.
"I am at rest for ever;
Ended the stress and strife."
Straight I fell to and sorrowed
For the pitiful past life.
Right wronged, and knowledge wasted;
Wise labour spurned for ease;
The sloth and the sin and the failure;
Did I grow sad for these?
They had made me sad so often;
Not now they made me sad;
My heart was full of sorrow
For joy it never had.
Scheme | ABXB XCXC DECE XADA XFXF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101011 010111 011011 111111 11110010 101101 1111010 01111 1111110 100101 111101 1010011 1101010 11111 010010010 111111 11111110 111111 1111110 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 583 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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