Analysis of Birthright
John Drinkwater 1882 ( Leytonstone, London, ) – 1937 ( London)
Lord Rameses of Egypt sighed
Because a summer evening passed;
And little Ariadne cried
That summer fancy fell at last
To dust; and young Verona died
When beauty's hour was overcast.
Theirs was the bitterness we know
Because the clouds of hawthorn keep
So short a state, and kisses go
To tombs unfathomably deep,
While Rameses and Romeo
And little Ariadne sleep.
Scheme | ABABAB CDCDCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101101 01010101 0100101 11010111 11010101 1110110 11010011 0101111 11010101 1111 110010 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 353 |
Words | 63 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 16, 2023
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