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
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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