Analysis of A Rivulet

Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1803 (Clifton, Bristol) – 1849 (Basel)



It is a lovely stream; its wavelets purl
As if they echoed to the fall and rise
Of the capricious breeze; each upward curl
That splashes pearl, mirrors the fairy eyes
Of viewless passer, and the billows hurl
Their sparkles on her lap, as over she flies.
And see, where onward whirls, within a ring
Of smoothest dimples, a dark foxglove bell
Half stifled by the gush encircling;
Perchance some tiny sprite crawled to that shell
To sleep away the noon, and winds did swing
Him into rest; for the warm sun was well
Shaded off by the long and silky down;
So I will save it, lest the elf should drown.


Scheme ABABABCACACADD
Poetic Form
Metre 110101111 1111010101 1001011101 1101100101 111000101 11010111011 0111010101 110100111 1101010100 0111011111 1101010111 1011101111 1011010101 1111110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 591
Words 114
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 470
Words per stanza (avg) 112
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 31, 2023

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Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Thomas Lovell Beddoes was an English poet, dramatist and physician. more…

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