Analysis of We'll go No More A-Roving
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
We'll go no more a-roving by the light of the moon.
November glooms are barren beside the dusk of June.
The summer flowers are faded, the summer thoughts are sere.
We'll go no more a-roving, lest worse befall, my dear.
We'll go no more a-roving by the light of the moon.
The song we sang rings hollow, and heavy runs the tune.
Glad ways and words remembered would shame the wretched year.
We'll go no more a-roving, nor dream we did, my dear.
We'll go no more a-roving by the light of the moon.
If yet we walk together, we need not shun the noon.
No sweet thing left to savour, no sad thing left to fear,
We'll go no more a-roving, but weep at home, my dear.
Scheme | Aabb Aabb Aabb |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111010101101 0101110010111 01010110010111 1111010110111 1111010101101 0111110010101 1101010110101 1111010111111 1111010101101 1111010111101 111111111111 1111010111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 655 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 166 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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