Analysis of Ballade Of Aucassin
Andrew Lang 1844 (Selkirk, Scottish Borders) – 1912 (Banchory)
Where smooth the southern waters run
By rustling leagues of poplars grey,
Beneath a veiled soft southern sun,
We wandered out of yesterday,
Went maying through that ancient May
Whose fallen flowers are fragrant yet,
And loitered by the fountain spray
With Aucassin and Nicolette.
The grass-grown paths are trod of none
Where through the woods they went astray.
The spider's traceries are spun
Across the darkling forest way.
There come no knights that ride to slay,
No pilgrims through the grasses wet,
No shepherd lads that sang their say
With Aucassin and Nicolette!
'Twas here by Nicolette begun
Her bower of boughs and grasses gay;
'Scaped from the cell of marble dun
'Twas here the lover found the fay,
Ah, lovers fond! ah, foolish play!
How hard we find it to forget
Who fain would dwell with them as they,
With Aucassin and Nicolette.
Prince, 'tis a melancholy lay!
For youth, for love we both regret.
How fair they seem, how far away,
With Aucassin and Nicolette!
Scheme | ababbcbC ababbcbC ababbcbC bcbC |
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Poetic Form | Ballade |
Metre | 11010101 1101111 01011101 1101110 1111101 110101101 0110101 11001 01111111 11011101 01111 0101101 11111111 11010101 11011111 11001 1110101 010110101 11011101 11010101 11011101 11111101 11111111 11001 1101001 11111101 11111101 11001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 958 |
Words | 171 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 193 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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