Analysis of Ballades V - Of His Choice of a Sepulchre
Andrew Lang 1844 (Selkirk, Scottish Borders) – 1912 (Banchory)
HERE I ’d come when weariest!
Here the breast
Of the Windberg’s tufted over
Deep with bracken; here his crest
Takes the west,
Where the wide-winged hawk doth hover.
Silent here are lark and plover;
In the cover
Deep below, the cushat best
Loves his mate, and croons above
O’er their nest,
Where the wide-winged hawk doth hover.
Bring me here, Life’s tired-out guest,
To the blest
Bed that waits the weary rover,—
Here should failure be confest;
Ends my quest,
Where the wide-winged hawk doth hover!
Friend, or stranger kind, or lover,
Ah, fulfil a last behest,
Let me rest
Where the wide-winged hawk doth hover!
Scheme | aabaaB bbaxaB aabaaB baaB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 101 1011010 1110111 101 10111110 10111010 0010 101011 1110101 111 10111110 11111011 101 11101010 111011 111 10111110 11101110 110101 111 10111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 690 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 4 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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