Analysis of A Song of Enchantment
Walter de la Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
A song of Enchantment I sang me there,
In a green-green wood, by waters fair,
Just as the words came up to me
I sang it under the wild wood tree.
Widdershins turned I, singing it low,
Watching the wild birds come and go;
No cloud in the deep dark blue to be seen
Under the thick-thatched branches green.
Twilight came: silence came:
The planet of Evening's silver flame;
By darkening paths I wandered through
Thickets trembling with drops of dew.
But the music is lost and the words are gone
Of the song I sang as I sat alone,
Ages and ages have fallen on me -
On the wood and the pool and the elder tree.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF XXBB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 0110101111 001111101 11011111 111100111 1111011 10011101 1100111111 10011101 11101 010110101 110011101 101001111 10101100111 1011111101 1001011011 10100100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 601 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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