Analysis of Song from the Persian
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)
AH, sad are they who know not love,
But, far from passion's tears and smiles,
Drift down a moonless sea, beyond
The silvery coasts of fairy isles.
And sadder they whose longing lips
Kiss empty air, and never touch
The dear warm mouth of those they love --
Waiting, wasting, suffering much.
But clear as amber, fine as musk,
Is life to those who, pilgrim-wise,
Move hand in hand from dawn to dusk,
Each morning nearer Paradise.
Ah, not for them shall angels pray!
They stand in everlasting light,
They walk in Allah's smile by day,
And slumber in his heart by night.
Scheme | ABXB XCAC DXDX EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11111111 1111101 1101101 010011101 01011101 11010101 01111111 10101001 11110111 11111101 11011111 1101010 11111101 1100101 1101111 01001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 579 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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