Analysis of To Marguerite: Continued
Matthew Arnold 1822 (Laleham) – 1888 (Liverpool)
Yes! in the sea of life enisled,
With echoing straits between us thrown,
Dotting the shoreless watery wild,
We mortal millions live alone.
The islands feel the enclasping flow,
And then their endless bounds they know.
But when the moon their hollows lights,
And they are swept by balms of spring,
And in their glens, on starry nights,
The nightingales divinely sing;
And lovely notes, from shore to shore,
Across the sounds and channels pour--
Oh! then a longing like despair
Is to their farthest caverns sent;
For surely once, they feel, we were
Parts of a single continent!
Now round us spreads the watery plain--
Oh might our marges meet again!
Who order'd, that their longing's fire
Should be, as soon as kindled, cool'd?
Who renters vain their deep desire?--
A God, a God their severance ruled!
And bade betwixt their shores to be
The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea.
Scheme | ABABCC DEDEFF XAGAXX GAGAHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001111 110010111 10011001 11010101 0101011 01110111 11011101 01111111 00111101 010101 01011111 01010101 11010101 11110101 11011110 11010100 111101001 11101101 11011110 11111101 110111010 010111001 01011111 01111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 857 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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