Analysis of To H.L.S.
Philip Henry Savage 1868 – 1899 (Massachusetts General Hospital)
I WANDERED on a lonely quest;
And deep within a dark forést
That lightened upward to the sky
A maiden, with her head borne high,
Went lightly by.
A bending shape, a glancing eye,
Long slender limbs borne maidenly,
Bound golden hair, — she trembled lest
She fright the butterfly at rest
On either breast.
So she went on into the west
Beyond the dark-green, dim forést
That fell to blackness — all the sky
Closed down, — when on my lips felt I
A butterfly!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 01010111 11010101 01010111 1101 01010101 110111 11011101 1101011 1101 11110101 01011111 11110101 11111111 010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 470 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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