Analysis of Prescience
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)
The new moon hung in the sky, the sun was low in the west,
And my betrothed and I in the churchyard paused to rest--
Happy maiden and lover, dreaming the old dream over:
The light winds wandered by, and robins chirped from the nest.
And lo! in the meadow sweet was the grave of a little child,
With a crumbling stone at the feet and the ivy running wild--
Tangled ivy and clover folding it over and over:
Close to my sweetheart's feet was the little mound up-piled.
Stricken with nameless fears, she shrank and clung to me,
And her eyes were filled with tears for a sorrow I did not see:
Lightly the winds were blowing, softly her tears were flowing--
Tears for the unknown years and a sorrow that was to be!
Scheme | AABA CCBC DDXD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110010111001 01101001111 10100101001110 0111010101101 01001110110101 1010011010010101 101001010110010 111111010111 101101110111 001011110101111 10010101001010 11001100101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 705 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 184 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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