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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Alice Meynell

Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet. more…

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