Analysis of A Poet of One Mood
Alice Meynell 1847 (London) – 1922
A poet of one mood in all my lays,
Ranging all life to sing one only love,
Like a west wind across the world I move,
Sweeping my harp of floods mine own wild ways.
The countries change, but not the west-wind days
Which are my songs. My soft skies shine above,
And on all seas the colours of a dove,
And on all fields a flash of silver greys.
I made the whole world answer to my art
And sweet monotonous meanings. In your ears
I change not ever, bearing, for my part,
One thought that is the treasure of my years-
A small cloud full of rain upon my heart
And in mine arms, clasped, like a child in tears.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101110111 1011111101 1011010111 1011111111 0101110111 1111111101 011101101 0111011101 1101110111 01010010011 1111010111 1111010111 0111110111 0011110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 464 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 122 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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