Analysis of Song.—Thou wert lovely
Louisa Stuart Costello 1799 – 1870
Thou wert lovely to my sight,
When in yonder dell I found thee
In thy radiant beauty bright,
Though a desert spread around thee;
Like the heath-bell's purple flower,
Shrinking from a dewy shower.
Thou art rich in beauty yet,
Fair as when at first I loved thee;
All the snares that could beset,
Rank and splendour, since have proved thee;
Change thy fortune as it will,
Thou art fair and faultless still.
Scheme | ABABCC DBDBEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111 10101111 01100101 10101011 10111010 10101010 1110101 11111111 1011101 1011111 1110111 111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 414 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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