Analysis of An Answer

Alfred Austin 1835 (Leeds) – 1913 (Ashford)



Come, let us go into the lane, love mine,
And mark and gather what the Autumn grows:
The creamy elder mellowed into wine,
The russet hip that was the pink-white rose;
The amber woodbine into rubies turned,
The blackberry that was the bramble born;
Nor let the seeded clematis be spurned,
Nor pearls, that now are corals, of the thorn.
Look! what a lovely posy we have made
From the wild garden of the waning year.
So when, dear love, your summer is decayed,
Beauty more touching than is clustered here
Will linger in your life, and I shall cling
Closely as now, nor ask if it be Spring.


Scheme ABABCDCDEFEGHH
Poetic Form
Metre 1111010111 0101010101 0101010011 0101110111 010101101 010110101 1101010011 1111110101 110101111 1011010101 1111110101 1011011101 1100110111 1011111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 581
Words 111
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 457
Words per stanza (avg) 109
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin DL was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896 upon the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. more…

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