Analysis of Adelina Patti
Adah Isaacs Menken 1835 (Milneburg, New Orleans, Louisiana) – 1868 (Paris, France)
Thou Pleiad of the lyric world
Where Pasta, Garcia shone,
Come back with thy sweet voice again,
And gem the starry zone.
Though faded, still the vision sees
The loveliest child of night,
The fairest of the Pleiades,
Its glory and its light.
How fell with music from thy tongue
The picture which it drew
Of Lucia, radiant, warm, and young-
Amina, fond and true.
Or the young Marie's grace and art,
So free from earthly strife,
Beating upon the sounding heart,
The gay tattoo of life!
Fair Florence! home of glorious Art,
And mistress of its sphere,
Clasp fast thy beauties to thy heart-
Behold thy rival here!
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDE FGFG FXFX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Tetractys (25%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 11010101 110101 11111101 010101 11010101 01111 0101010 110011 11110111 010111 110100101 1101 10101101 111101 10010101 010111 110111001 010111 11110111 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 597 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 24, 2023
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