Analysis of My Beauty's Home.
Lennox Amott 1861 – 1909
My beauty lives in a cottage grey by a gentle river's mouth,
A cottage grey by the lone sea-shore away in the sunny south,
Her eye's as fair, oh fairer, than the moonlight o'er the sea,
And I love to look in my darling's face as she sits and sings to me.
I'm as happy as a monarch as she lingers at my side,
As we watch the far horizon of the ever-tossing tide,
While the cool refreshing zephyr bears her tresses in its train,
Now starting into motion and now slumbering again.
She trips beside the waters on the distant yellow sand
While holy vespers steal across the ocean and the land,
And the sea bears the reflection of the worlds that roll above
And every breath of even seems to whisper but of love.
Oh what to me is Glory, what is Power, what is Pride!
I care not for this bauble with my loved one at my side.
I want no other beauty than the beauty of her face,
What brighter vision is there than her comeliness and grace!
Scheme | AABB CCXX DDEE CCFF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 1101001011010101 0101101110100101 01111101011001 0111101111110111 11101011110111 111010101010101 101010101010011 11001100110001 11010101010101 1101101010001 001100101011101 010011101110111 11111101110111 11111101111111 11110101010101 110101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 924 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 181 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 03, 2023
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