Analysis of The Bride.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
Her bridal dawn! her heart was fed
Last night with eerie food,
As, one by one, her lovers dead
Came in the solitude,
And shared the last sad feast with her
In Beauty's grave, as if it were
To-morrow, white and cold,
The ghost of all that she had been
Would pass away for e'er, as e'en
Their dreams had died of old.
Each, with his sigil of despair,
Moved in the eerie room,
For all were cognisant (as e'er
All are beyond the tom
That one night more the virgin tie
Which had bound them would be put by,
As she felt passion's stir
Throb in her maidenhood, until
All that she was, for good and ill,
Became a dream to her.
And so with mystic eyes and ears
They came to say good-bye,
Who had been her bright girlhood's peers
And knew e'en love must die —
That it must be a shadow, too,
As life had long been in the blue
And golden light above;
And as each pledged her in the dim
Remoteness, there came over him
The last desire of love.
Scheme | ABABCCDEFDGHCIJJCKKCLJLJMMNOON |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (33%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 01010111 111101 11110101 10010 01011110 0111110 110101 01111111 1101110111 111111 1111101 100101 1101110 110101 11110101 11111111 11111 100101 11111101 010110 01110101 111111 1110111 0111111 1111011 11111001 010101 01110001 01011101 0101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 910 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 30 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 709 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 186 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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