Analysis of Bygones
Bert Leston Taylor 1866 – 1921
Or ever a lick of Art was done,
Or ever a one to care,
I was a Purple Polygon,
And you were a Sky-Blue Square.
You yearned for me across a void,
For I lay in a different plane,
I'd set my heart on a Red Rhomboid,
And your sighing was in vain.
You pined for me as well I knew,
And you faded day by day,
Until the Square that was heavenly Blue,
Had paled to an ashen grey.
A myriad years or less or more,
Have softly fluttered by,
Matters are much as they were before,
Except 'tis I that sigh.
I yearn for you, but I have no chance,
You lie in a different plane,
I break my heart for a single glance,
And I break said heart in vain.
And ever I grow more pale and wan,
And taste your old despair,
When I was a Purple Polygon,
And you were a Sky-Blue Square.
Scheme | xabA cdcd efef ghgh idid babA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 110011111 1100111 110101 0100111 11110101 111001001 11111011 0110101 11111111 0110111 0101111001 1111101 010011111 110101 101111001 011111 111111111 11001001 111110101 0111101 010111101 011101 1110101 0100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 747 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 14, 2023
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