Analysis of Sad Confinement. Years long and weary.
Wayne Blair 1951 (London)
My hair is grey, but not with years,
Nor grew it white
In a single night,
As men's have grown from sudden fears:
My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil,
But rusted with a vile repose,
For they have been a dungeon's spoil,
And mine has been the fate of those
To whom the goodly earth and air
Are bann'd, and barr'd--forbidden fare;
But this was for my father's faith
I suffer'd chains and courted death;
That father perish'd at the stake
For tenets he would not forsake;
And for the same his lineal race
In darkness found a dwelling place;
We were seven--who now are one,
Six in youth, and one in age,
Finish'd as they had begun,
Proud of Persecution's rage;
One in fire, and two in field,
Their belief with blood have seal'd,
Dying as their father died,
For the God their foes denied;
Note: I never forgot this sad account of prisoners in dark, damp confinement. For sake of their religious beliefs. Deprived of scenery or sunlight or exercise of any degree. Atrophying, dying, save one. He lived for fresh air, delightful skies, birds in song and renewed human exchange.
Scheme | ABBACDCDEEXXFFGGHIHIJJKK X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (24%) |
Metre | 11111111 1111 00101 11111101 11111111 11010101 1111011 01110111 11010101 11011001 11111101 11010101 11010101 11011101 010111001 01010101 10101111 1010101 1011101 1111 10100101 1011111 1011101 1011101 111001110111000110101111010010111001111011001110111111101011010011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,098 |
Words | 221 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 24, 1 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 415 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 98 |
About this poem
Remembering the narrative poem by Lord Byron. The Prisoner of Chillon.
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Submitted by dougb.19255 on May 31, 2023
Modified by dougb.19255 on May 31, 2023
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