Analysis of Broceliande

Alan Seeger 1888 (New York City) – 1916



Broceliande! in the perilous beauty of silence and menacing shade,
Thou art set on the shores of the sea down the haze
of horizons untravelled, unscanned.
Untroubled, untouched with the woes of this world
are the moon-marshalled hosts that invade
Broceliande.

Only at dusk, when lavender clouds in the orient twilight disband,
Vanishing where all the blue afternoon they have drifted in solemn parade,
Sometimes a whisper comes down on the wind from the valleys of Fairyland ----

Sometimes an echo most mournful and faint like the horn of a huntsman strayed,
Faint and forlorn, half drowned in the murmur of foliage fitfully fanned,
Breathes in a burden of nameless regret till I startle,
disturbed and affrayed:
Broceliande --
Broceliande --
Broceliande. . .


Scheme axaxaA bab abxaAAA
Poetic Form
Metre 1001001011001001 111101101101 101011 01001101111 101101101 1 1011110010010101 100110101111001001 01010111011010110 011101100110110101 10011100101101001 10010110011110 0101 1 1 1
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 767
Words 124
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 3, 7
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 203
Words per stanza (avg) 41
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Alan Seeger

Alan Seeger was an American poet who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme serving in the French Foreign Legion. more…

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