Analysis of Canzonet
Oscar Wilde 1854 (Dublin) – 1900 (Paris)
I have no store
Of gryphon-guarded gold;
Now, as before,
Bare is the shepherd's fold.
Rubies nor pearls
Have I to gem thy throat;
Yet woodland girls
Have loved the shepherd's note.
Then pluck a reed
And bid me sing to thee,
For I would feed
Thine ears with melody,
Who art more fair
Than fairest fleur-de-lys,
More sweet and rare
Than sweetest ambergris.
What dost thou fear?
Young Hyacinth is slain,
Pan is not here,
And will not come again.
No horned Faun
Treads down the yellow leas,
No God at dawn
Steals through the olive trees.
Hylas is dead,
Nor will he e'er divine
Those little red
Rose-petalled lips of thine.
On the high hill
No ivory dryads play,
Silver and still
Sinks the sad autumn day.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGCGX XHXXHIXI JKJKLMLM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 11101 1101 110101 1011 111111 111 110101 1101 011111 1111 111100 1111 110111 1101 110100 1111 11011 1111 011101 111 110101 1111 110101 111 1111001 1101 11111 1011 110011 1001 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 678 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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