Analysis of Marlowe
John Le Gay Brereton 1871 (Sydney) – 1933
The spell of Shakespeare fills the heart
With earthly music loud and low;
But Marlowe drives the clouds apart,
And through their thundering rifts we go.
Scheme | ABAB |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 0111101 11010101 1110101 011100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 157 |
Words | 28 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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