Analysis of Romance
Christopher John Brennan 1870 (Haymarket, New South Wales) – 1932 (Lewisham, New South Wales)
Of old, on her terrace at evening
...not here...in some long-gone kingdom
O, folded close to her breast!...
--our gaze dwelt wide on the blackness
(was it trees? or a shadowy passion
the pain of an old-world longing
that it sobb'd, that it swell'd, that it shrank?)
--the gloom of the forest
blurr'd soft on the skirt of the night-skies
that shut in our lonely world.
...not here...in some long-gone world...
close-lock'd in that passionate arm-clasp
no word did we utter, we stirr'd not:
the silence of Death, or of Love...
only, round and over us
that tearless infinite yearning
and the Night with her spread wings rustling
folding us with the stars.
...not here...in some long-gone kingdom
of old, on her terrace at evening
O, folded close to her heart!...
Scheme | ABx cxaxxxd d xxxcaax BAx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010110 10111110 1101101 101111010 1111010010 01111110 111111111 011010 111011011 11010101 1011111 110110011 111110111 01011111 1010101 1110010 001101110 101101 10111110 111010110 1101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 767 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 7, 1, 7, 3 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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