Analysis of XX: To Robert Browning
Thomas Noon Talfourd 1795 (Reading) – 1854 (Stafford)
SUGGESTED BY A SUNSET OF UNUSUAL BEAUTY
A mighty sorrow gathers while the eye
Is by the sunset's waning glories fed,
For they recal the forms of poets dead,
Who with the first of mighty ages vie,
And lately veil'd by earth's horizon, shed
Sad beauty from beneath it;-yet a power,
Like the pale moon that to their lustrous hour
Gave the meek tribute of a young ally
Felt more than own'd, consoling light should shower
From crystal urn that holds the precious dower
Of Browning's genius-which, when breezes rend
Fond clouds its lavish splendours glorify,
Made free of azure fields, its course shall wend
To high dominion in serenest sky.
Scheme | A BCCBCDDBDXABXB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 010101101010 0101010101 110110101 111011101 1101110101 0101110101 11010111010 10111111010 1011010110 11110101110 1101110101 1101011101 11110110 1111011111 11010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 629 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 254 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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