Analysis of A Wish (III)
Frances Anne Kemble 1809 (London) – 1893 (London)
Oh that I were a fairy sprite, to wander
In forest paths, o'erarched with oak and beech;
Where the sun's yellow light, in slanting rays,
Sleeps on the dewy moss: what time the breath
Of early morn stirs the white hawthorn boughs,
And fills the air with showers of snowy blossoms.
Or lie at sunset 'mid the purple heather,
Listening the silver music that rings out
From the pale mountain bells, swayed by the wind.
Or sit in rocky clefts above the sea,
While one by one the evening stars shine forth
Among the gathering clouds, that strew the heavens
Like floating purple wreaths of mournful nightshade!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11100101110 010111101 1011010101 1101011101 110110111 010111011010 1111101010 10001010111 1011011101 1101010101 1111010111 010100111010 1101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 598 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 479 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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