Analysis of Runic Verses
George Borrow 1803 (East Dereham) – 1881 (Lowestoft)
O the force of Runic verses,
O the mighty strength of song
Cannot baffle all the curses
Which to mortal state belong.
Slaughter’d chiefs, that buried under
Heaps of marble, long have lain,
Song can rend your tomb asunder,
Give ye life and strength again.
When around his dying capture,
Fierce, the serpent draws his fold,
Song can make him, wild with rapture,
Straight uncoil, and bite the mould.
When from keep and battled tower,
Flames to heaven upward strain,
Song has o’er them greater power,
Than the vapours dropping rain.
It can quench the conflagration
Striding o’er the works of art;
But nor song nor incantation
Can appease love’s cruel smart.
O the force of Runic verses,
O the mighty strength of song
Cannot baffle all the curses
Which to mortal state belong.
Scheme | ABCB dedx dfdf dede ghgh ABCB |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 1011110 1010111 10101010 1110101 1111010 1110111 11111010 1110101 10111010 1010111 11111110 110101 11101010 1110101 11111010 101101 1110010 1010111 11110110 1011101 1011110 1010111 10101010 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 764 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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