Analysis of Music
Walter de la Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
When music sounds, gone is the earth I know,
And all her lovely things even lovelier grow;
Her flowers in vision flame, her forest trees
Lift burdened branches, stilled with ecstasies.
When music sounds, out of the water rise
Naiads whose beauty dims my waking eyes,
Rapt in strange dreams burns each enchanted face,
With solemn echoing stirs their dwelling-place.
When music sounds, all that I was I am
Ere to this haunt of brooding dust I came;
And from Time's woods break into distant song
The swift-winged hours, as I hasten along.
Scheme | AABB CCDD XXEE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 1101110111 0101011011 01001010101 11010111 1101110101 111011101 1011110101 11010011101 1101111111 1111110111 0111101101 01110111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 543 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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