Analysis of Vivien

Alan Seeger 1888 (New York City) – 1916



Her eyes under their lashes were blue pools
Fringed round with lilies; her bright hair unfurled
Clothed her as sunshine clothes the summer world.
Her robes were gauzes -- gold and green and gules,
All furry things flocked round her, from her hand
Nibbling their foods and fawning at her feet.
Two peacocks watched her where she made her seat
Beside a fountain in Broceliande.
Sometimes she sang. . . . Whoever heard forgot
Errand and aim, and knights at noontide here,
Riding from fabulous gestes beyond the seas,
Would follow, tranced, and seek . . . and find her not . . .
But wake that night, lost, by some woodland mere,
Powdered with stars and rimmed with silent trees.


Scheme ABBACDDBEFGEHG
Poetic Form
Metre 0110110011 1111001101 101110101 010110101 1101110101 10011010101 111011101 0101001 0111010101 100101111 10110010101 1101010101 111111111 1011011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 682
Words 114
Sentences 15
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 527
Words per stanza (avg) 121
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Alan Seeger

Alan Seeger was an American poet who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme serving in the French Foreign Legion. more…

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