Analysis of The One White Hair
Walter Savage Landor 1775 (Warwick) – 1864
THE WISEST of the wise
Listen to pretty lies
And love to hear them told;
Doubt not that Solomon
Listen’d to many a one,—
Some in his youth, and more when he grew old.
I never was among
The choir of Wisdom’s song,
But pretty lies lov’d I
As much as any king,
When youth was on the wing,
And (must it then be told?) when youth had quite gone by.
Alas! and I have not
The pleasant hour forgot
When one pert lady said,
“O Walter! I am quite
Bewilder’d with affright!
I see (sit quiet now) a white hair on your head!”
Another more benign
Snipp’d it away from mine,
And in her own dark hair
Pretended it was found…
She leap’d, and twirl’d it round…
Fair as she was, she never was so fair!
Scheme | AABCCB XXDEED FFGXBG HHIJJI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101 101101 011111 111100 111001 1011011111 110101 010111 110111 111101 111101 011111111111 010111 0101001 111101 110111 111 111101011111 010101 110111 000111 010111 110111 1111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 695 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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