Analysis of Nymph And Zephyr: A Statuary Group. By Westmacott
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
AND the summer sun shone in the sky,
And the rose's whole life was in its sigh,
When her eyelids were kiss'd by a morning beam,
And the Nymph rose up from her moonlit dream;
For she had watch'd the midnight hour
Till her head had bow'd like a sleeping flower;
But now she had waken'd, and light and dew
Gave her morning freshness and morning hue,--
Up she sprang, and away she fled
O'er the lithe grass stem and the blossom's head,
From the lillies' bells she dash'd not the spray,
For her feet were as light and as white as they.
Sudden upon her arm there shone
A gem with the hues of an Indian stone,
And she knew the insect bird whose wing
Is sacred to PSYCHE and to spring;
But scarce had her touch its captive prest
Ere another prisoner was on her breast,
And the Zephyr sought his prize again,--
'No,' said the Nymph, thy search is vain:
And her golden hair from its braided yoke
Burst like the banner of hope as she spoke,
'And instead, fair boy, thou shalt moralize
Over the pleasure that from thee flies;
Then it is pleasure,--for we possess
But in the search, not in the success.'
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJKLLMMNN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 001011001 0010111011 1010110101 001111011 11110110 10111101010 111110101 1010100101 11100111 1001110011 101111101 10101101111 10010111 01101111001 01101111 110110011 111011101 10101001101 001011101 11011111 0010111101 1101011111 001111110 100101111 111101101 100110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,073 |
Words | 215 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 839 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 208 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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