Analysis of Another For The Briar-Rose.
William Morris 1834 (Walthamstow) – 1896 (London)
O treacherous scent, O thorny sight,
O tangle of world's wrong and right,
What art thou 'gainst my armour's gleam
But dusky cobwebs of a dream?
Beat down, deep sunk from every gleam
Of hope, they lie and dully dream;
Men once, but men no more, that Love
Their waste defeated hearts should move.
Here sleeps the world that would not love!
Let it sleep on, but if He move
Their hearts in humble wise to wait
On his new-wakened fair estate.
O won at last is never late!
Thy silence was the voice of fate;
Thy still hands conquered in the strife;
Thine eyes were light; thy lips were life.
Scheme | AABB BBCD CDEE EEFF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 110011101 11011101 1111111 111101 111111001 1111011 11111111 11010111 11011111 11111111 11010111 1111101 11111101 11010111 11110001 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 579 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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