Analysis of By The Rosanna--To F.M. Stanzer Thal, Tyrol
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
The old grey Alp has caught the cloud,
And the torrent river sings aloud;
The glacier-green Rosanna sings
An organ song of its upper springs.
Foaming under the tiers of pine,
I see it dash down the dark ravine,
And it tumbles the rocks in boisterous play,
With an earnest will to find its way.
Sharp it throws out an emerald shoulder,
And, thundering ever of the mountain,
Slaps in sport some giant boulder,
And tops it in a silver fountain.
A chain of foam from end to end,
And a solitude so deep, my friend,
You may forget that man abides
Beyond the great mute mountain-sides.
Yet to me, in this high-walled solitude
Of river and rock and forest rude,
The roaring voice through the long white chain
Is the voice of the world of bubble and brain.
Scheme | AABBCDEEFGFGHHIIJJKK |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01111101 001010101 01010101 110111101 10100111 111110101 01100101001 111011111 111111010 0100101010 10111010 011001010 01111111 00101111 11011101 01011101 111011110 110010101 010110111 10110111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 736 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 587 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 139 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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