Analysis of Song: Memory, hither come
William Blake 1757 (Soho) – 1827 (London)
Memory, hither come,
And tune your merry notes;
And, while upon the wind
Your music floats,
I'll pore upon the stream
Where sighing lovers dream,
And fish for fancies as they pass
Within the watery glass.
I'll drink of the clear stream,
And hear the linnet's song;
And there I'll lie and dream
The day along:
And, when night comes, I'll go
To places fit for woe,
Walking along the darken'd valley
With silent Melancholy.
Scheme | XAXA BBCC BDBD EEFF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 100101 011101 010101 1101 110101 110101 01110111 0101001 111011 01011 011101 0101 011111 110111 100101010 110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 484 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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