Analysis of Isabella
Fredrik Sjöman 2002 (Sweden)
The lithely hale of youth has spent;
I have, by device, my flower bent.
My summer goddess haunts only dreams;
I am denied but your gaunt supremes.
I'll dizzy as I tumble an autumnal fall,
But hope to hear a beckoning call,
That I might brace for winter's cold
In some embrace as I grow old.
For yet I stagger on mountain's crest;
Come join my fall! and I'll do the rest.
Ill suffer the thorns of a briar rose,
I'll shower you with effort's prose.
Though I'll not have much for you in verse,
Just broken dreams should be much worse;
For all in all what's it to me
If my summer goddess appears to be
But a vain wish and my marriage strife?
It only lasts for my short, small life.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111111 111011101 110101101 110111101 110111010101 111101001 11111101 01011111 111101101 111101101 1100110101 1101111 111111101 11011111 11011111 1110100111 101101101 110111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 677 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 518 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 133 |
About this poem
This is dedicated to a character I was quite struck by. I wrote this not so much to her, but as a response to the eternal ideal that she was an avatar of, and to the unique and inalienable experience of encountering it.
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Written on August 28, 2022
Submitted by fredda.sjoman on December 08, 2022
Modified on March 25, 2023
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