Analysis of To Isadore
Edgar Allan Poe 1809 (Boston) – 1849 (Baltimore)
I. Beneath the vine-clad eaves,
Whose shadows fall before
Thy lowly cottage door--
Under the lilac's tremulous leaves--
Within thy snowy clasped hand
The purple flowers it bore.
Last eve in dreams, I saw thee stand,
Like queenly nymph from Fairy-land--
Enchantress of the flowery wand,
Most beauteous Isadore!
II. And when I bade the dream
Upon thy spirit flee,
Thy violet eyes to me
Upturned, did overflowing seem
With the deep, untold delight
Of Love's serenity;
Thy classic brow, like lilies white
And pale as the Imperial Night
Upon her throne, with stars bedight,
Enthralled my soul to thee!
III. Ah! ever I behold
Thy dreamy, passionate eyes,
Blue as the languid skies
Hung with the sunset's fringe of gold;
Now strangely clear thine image grows,
And olden memories
Are startled from their long repose
Like shadows on the silent snows
When suddenly the night-wind blows
Where quiet moonlight lies.
IV. Like music heard in dreams,
Like strains of harps unknown,
Of birds for ever flown,--
Audible as the voice of streams
That murmur in some leafy dell,
I hear thy gentlest tone,
And Silence cometh with her spell
Like that which on my tongue doth dwell,
When tremulous in dreams I tell
My love to thee alone!
V. In every valley heard,
Floating from tree to tree,
Less beautiful to me,
The music of the radiant bird,
Than artless accents such as thine
Whose echoes never flee!
Ah! how for thy sweet voice I pine:--
For uttered in thy tones benign
(Enchantress!) this rude name of mine
Doth seem a melody!
Scheme | ABBACBCCXX DEEDFEFFCE GHHGIXIIIH JKKJLKLLLK MEEMNENNNE |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (26%) |
Metre | 1010111 11101 110101 10011001 0111011 0101011 11011111 1111101 1101001 110010 1011101 011101 1100111 111001 1010101 110100 11011101 011001001 0101111 011111 1110101 1101001 110101 1101111 11011101 010100 11011101 1110101 11000111 11011 1110101 111101 111101 10010111 11001101 1111001 01010101 11111111 11000111 111101 10100101 101111 110011 010101001 1110111 110101 11111111 11001101 111111 110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,978 |
Words | 268 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 10, 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 50 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 237 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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