Analysis of L'Envoi
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
Thou art the goal for which my spirit longs;
As dove on dove,
Bound for one home, I send thee all my songs
With all my love.
Thou art the haven with fair harbour lights;
Safe locked in thee,
My heart would anchor after stormful nights
Alone at sea.
Thou art the rest of which my life is fain,
The perfect peace;
Absorbed in thee the world, with all its pain
And toil, would cease.
Thou art the heaven to which my soul would go!
O dearest eyes,
Lost in your light you would turn hell below
To Paradise.
Thou all in all for which my heart-blood yearns!
Yea, near or far--
Where the unfathomed ether throbs and burns
With star on star,
Or where, enkindled by the fires of June,
The fresh earth glows,
Blushing beneath the mystical white moon
Through rose on rose--
Thee, thee, I see, thee feel in all live things,
Beloved one;
In the first bird which tremulously sings
Ere peep of sun;
In the last nestling orphaned in the hedge,
Rocked to and fro,
When dying summer shudders in the sedge,
And swallows go;
When roaring snows rush down the mountain-pass,
March floods with rills
Or April lightens through the living grass
In daffodils;
When poppied cornfields simmer in the heat
With tare and thistle,
And, like winged clouds above the mellow wheat,
The starlings whistle;
When stained with sunset the wide moorlands glare
In the wild weather,
And clouds with flaming craters smoke and flare
Red o'er red heather;
When the bent moon, on frostbound midnights waking,
Leans to the snow
Like some world-mother whose deep heart is breaking
O'er human woe.
As the round sun rolls red into the ocean,
Till all the sea
Glows fluid gold, even so life's mazy motion
Is dyed with thee:
For as the wave-like years subside and roll,
O heart's desire,
Thy soul glows interfused within my soul,
A quenchless fire.
Yea, thee I feel, all storms of life above,
Near though afar;
O thou my glorious morning star of love,
And evening star.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GXGX HIHI JKJK LMLM NGNG OAOX PQPQ RSRS TGTG MDMD USUS BIBI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (87%) Tetractys (37%) Etheree (22%) |
Metre | 1101111101 1111 1111111111 1111 1101011101 1101 111101011 0111 1101111111 0011 0101011111 0111 11010111111 1101 1011111101 110 1101111111 1111 10110101 1111 111101011 0111 1001010011 1111 1111110111 011 0011110001 1111 0011010001 1101 1101010001 0101 1101110101 1111 1101010101 010 111110001 11010 0111010101 0110 11110111 00110 0111010101 110110 101111110 1101 11110111110 10101 10111101010 1101 11011011110 1111 1101110101 11010 11110111 0110 1111111101 1101 11110010111 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,925 |
Words | 350 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 60 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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