Analysis of Allurement.



From yonder hedge, from yonder spray,
He calls me onward and away;
Broad lies the world and fair to see,
The cuckoo calls, is calling me!

I have not seen nor heard of Care,
Who used my very bed to share,
Since that first morn when, airily,
The cuckoo, calling, called to me!

My sweetheart's face? I have forgot;
My mother? But she calls me not;
From that green bank, from that dim lea,
The cuckoo calls, is calling me!

And I must go, I may not choose;
No gain there is, nor aught to lose;
And soon, ah, soon!, on some wild tree
The bird sits long and waits for me!


Scheme aabB ccxb ddbB eebb
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 11011101 11110001 11010111 0111101 11111111 11110111 111111 0110111 1111101 11011111 11111111 0111101 01111111 11111111 01111111 01110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 558
Words 115
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 106
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Margaret Steele Anderson

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