Analysis of Lochanilaun

Francis Brett Young 1884 (Halesowen) – 1954 (Cape Town)



This is the image of my last content:
My soul shall be a little lonely lake,
So hidden that no shadow of man may break
The folding of its mountain battlement;
Only the beautiful and innocent
Whiteness of sea-born cloud drooping to shake
Cool rain upon the reed-beds, or the wake
Of churn'd cloud in a howling wind's descent.
For there shall be no terror in the night
When stars that I have loved are born in me,
And cloudy darkness I will hold most fair;
But this shall be the end of my delight:
That you, my lovely one, may stoop and see
Your image in the mirrored beauty there.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1101011110 1111010101 1101111111 0101110100 1001000100 1011111011 1101011101 1110010101 1111110001 1111111101 0101011111 1111011101 1111011101 1100010101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 566
Words 111
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 454
Words per stanza (avg) 111
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Francis Brett Young

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