Analysis of The Bells - A Collaboration
Edgar Allan Poe 1809 (Boston) – 1849 (Baltimore)
The bells! — ah, the bells!
The little silver bells!
How fairy-like a melody there floats
From their throats. —
From their merry little throats —
From the silver, tinkling throats
Of the bells, bells, bells —
Of the bells!
The bells! — ah, the bells!
The heavy iron bells!
How horrible a monody there floats
From their throats —
From their deep-toned throats —
From their melancholy throats!
How I shudder at the notes
Of the bells, bells, bells —
Of the bells!
Scheme | AabBbbAA AabBbbbAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01101 010101 1101010011 111 1110101 10101001 10111 101 01101 010101 11000111 111 11111 111001 1110101 10111 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 485 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 9 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 20, 2023
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