Analysis of An Indian Love Song
Bertrand N. O. Walker 1870 – 1927
Light o’ the lodge, how I love thee,
Light o’ the lodge, how I love thee,
Mianza, my wild-wood fawn!
To wait and to watch for thy passing.
On hill-top I linger at dawn.
Glimmer of morn, how I love thee,
Glimmer of morn, how I love thee!
My flute to the ground now I fling,
As you tread the steep trail to the spring,
For thy coming has silenced my song.
Shimmer of moon on the river,
Sheen of soft star on the lake!
Moonlight and starlight are naught;
Their gleam and their glow is ne’er fraught
With such love-light as falls from thine eyes.
Scheme | AAbcb AAccx xxddx |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11011111 11011111 11111 110111110 11111011 10111111 10111111 11101111 111011101 111011011 10111010 1111101 10111 11011111 111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 577 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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