Analysis of The Merry Guide
Once in the wind of morning
I ranged the thymy wold;
The world-wide air was azure
And all the brooks ran gold.
There through the dews beside me
Behold a youth that trod,
With feathered cap on forehead,
And poised a golden rod.
With mien to match the morning
And gay delightful guise
And friendly brows and laughter
He looked me in the eyes.
Oh whence, I asked, and whither?
He smiled and would not say.
And looked at me and beckoned,
And laughed and led the way.
And with kind looks and laughter
And nought to say beside,
We two went on together,
I and my happy guide.
Across the glittering pastures
And empty upland still
And solitude of shepherds
High in the folded hill,
By hanging woods and hamlets
That gaze through orchards down
On many a windmill turning
And far-discovered town,
With gay regards of promise
And sure unslackened stride
And smiles and nothing spoken
Led on my merry guide.
By blowing realms of woodland
With sunstruck vanes afield
And cloud-led shadows sailing
About the windy weald,
By valley-guarded granges
And silver waters wide,
Content at heart I followed
With my delightful guide.
And like the cloudy shadows
Across the country blown
We two fare on for ever,
But not we two alone.
With the great gale we journey
That breathes from gardens thinned,
Borne in the drift of blossoms
Whose petals throng the wind;
Buoyed on the heaven-ward whisper
Of dancing leaflets whirled
From all the woods that autumn
Bereaves in all the world.
And midst the fluttering legion
Of all that ever died
I follow, and before us
Goes the delightful guide,
With lips that brim with laughter
But never once respond,
And feet that fly on feathers,
And serpent-circled wand.
Scheme | ABCB DEXE AFCF CGXG CHCH IJXJ XKAK LHMH XXAB XHXH XNCN DXXX COXO MHLH CPIP |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (87%) Etheree (32%) |
Metre | 1001110 11011 0111110 010111 1101011 010111 1101110 010101 1111010 010101 0101010 111001 1111010 110111 0111010 010101 0111010 011101 1111010 101101 01010010 010101 010110 100101 1101010 111101 1100110 010101 1101110 0111 0101010 111101 110111 11101 011110 010101 1101010 010101 1011110 110101 010101 010101 1111110 111101 1011110 111101 1001110 110101 101010110 110101 1101110 10101 01010010 111101 1100011 100101 1111110 110101 0111110 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,686 |
Words | 298 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 60 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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