Analysis of By The Arno
Oscar Wilde 1854 (Dublin) – 1900 (Paris)
The oleander on the wall
Grows crimson in the dawning light,
Though the grey shadows of the night
Lie yet on Florence like a pall.
The dew is bright upon the hill,
And bright the blossoms overhead,
But ah! the grasshoppers have fled,
The little Attic song is still.
Only the leaves are gently stirred
By the soft breathing of the gale,
And in the almond-scented vale
The lonely nightingale is heard.
The day will make thee silent soon,
O nightingale sing on for love!
While yet upon the shadowy grove
Splinter the arrows of the moon.
Before across the silent lawn
In sea-green vest the morning steals,
And to love's frightened eyes reveals
The long white fingers of the dawn
Fast climbing up the eastern sky
To grasp and slay the shuddering night,
All careless of my heart's delight,
Or if the nightingale should die.
Scheme | XAAX BCCB DEED FXXF GHHG IAAI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 0100101 11000101 1011101 11110101 01110101 01010101 1101011 01010111 10011101 10110101 00010101 01010011 01111101 11001111 110101001 10010101 01010101 01110101 01110101 01110101 11010101 110101001 11011101 11010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 809 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 26, 2023
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