Analysis of Romance
Edgar Allan Poe 1809 (Boston) – 1849 (Baltimore)
Romance, who loves to nod and sing,
With drowsy head and folded wing,
Among the green leaves as they shake
Far down within some shadowy lake,
To me a painted paroquet
Hath been- a most familiar bird-
Taught me my alphabet to say-
To lisp my very earliest word
While in the wild wood I did lie,
A child- with a most knowing eye.
Of late, eternal Condor years
So shake the very Heaven on high
With tumult as they thunder by,
I have no time for idle cares
Through gazing on the unquiet sky.
And when an hour with calmer wings
Its down upon my spirit flings-
That little time with lyre and rhyme
To while away- forbidden things!
My heart would feel to be a crime
Unless it trembled with the strings.
Scheme | AABBCCXCDD XDDXDEEFEFE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111101 11010101 01011111 110111001 110101 11010101 1111011 111101001 10011111 01101101 11010101 110101011 11011101 11111101 1101011 011101101 11011101 11011101 11011001 11111101 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 803 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 11 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 273 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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