Analysis of With Rue My Heart Is Laden
Alfred Edward Housman 1859 – 1936
With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a lightfoot lad.
By brooks too broad for leaping
The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111110 110111 11001110 010011 1111110 01111 0111110 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 229 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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