Analysis of Atalanta In Camden - Town
Lewis Carroll 1832 (Daresbury) – 1898 (Guildford)
Ay, 'twas here, on this spot,
In that summer of yore,
Atalanta did not
Vote my presence a bore,
Nor reply to my tenderest talk "She had
heard all that nonsense before."
She'd the brooch I had bought
And the necklace and sash on,
And her heart, as I thought,
Was alive to my passion;
And she'd done up her hair in the style that
the Empress had brought into fashion.
I had been to the play
With my pearl of a Peri,
But, for all I could say,
She declared she was weary,
That "the place was so crowded and hot,
and she couldn't abide that Dundreary."
Then I thought "Lucky boy!
'Tis for you that she whimpers!"
And I noted with joy
Those sensational simpers:
And I said "This is scrumptious!"
a phrase I had learned from the Devonshire shrimpers.
And I vowed "'Twill be said
I'm a fortunate fellow,
When the breakfast is spread,
When the topers are mellow,
When the foam of the bride-cake is white,
and the fierce orange-blossoms are yellow!"
O that languishing yawn!
O those eloquent eyes!
I was drunk with the dawn
Of a splendid surmise,
I was stung by a look, I was slain by a tear,
by a tempest of sighs.
Then I whispered "I see
The sweet secret thou keepest.
And the yearning for me
That thou wistfully weepest!
And the question is 'License or Banns?',
though undoubtedly Banns are the cheapest."
"Be my Hero," said I,
"And let me be Leander!"
But I lost her reply,
Something ending with "gander",
For the omnibus rattled so loud that no
mortal could quite understand her.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 011011 01011 111001 101111111 1111001 101111 0010011 001111 1011110 0111010011 010110110 111101 111101 111111 1011110 101111001 01100111 111101 111111 011011 101001 011111 01111100110 011111 1010010 101011 101110 101101111 0011010110 111001 111001 111101 101001 111101111101 101011 111011 011011 001011 111001 001011011 1010011010 111011 0111010 111001 1010110 10100101111 1011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,448 |
Words | 291 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 20, 2023
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