Analysis of Song
Edgar Allan Poe 1809 (Boston) – 1849 (Baltimore)
I saw thee on thy bridal day-
When a burning blush came o'er thee,
Though happiness around thee lay,
The world all love before thee:
And in thine eye a kindling light
(Whatever it might be)
Was all on Earth my aching sight
Of Loveliness could see.
That blush, perhaps, was maiden shame-
As such it well may pass-
Though its glow hath raised a fiercer flame
In the breast of him, alas!
Who saw thee on that bridal day,
When that deep blush would come o'er thee,
Though happiness around thee lay;
The world all love before thee.
Scheme | abAB cbcb dede abAB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111101 101011101 11000111 0111011 00110101 10111 11111101 1111 11011101 111111 111110101 0011101 11111101 111111101 11000111 0111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 595 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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