Analysis of The Beauty of Switzerland
Your graces surprised me greatly -
Puny expectations
Never could do your sights justice:
Soaring and lumbering,
Bathed in such fresh tranquility -
These are your high mountains.
Your colours arrested me too -
The melange of autumn
Aglow in this richness of change;
Re-inventing these tones
So tragically forgotten -
Here on your wooded hills.
Your dwellings looked so welcoming -
Substantial yet pretty,
Seeming to exude contentment,
Sufficient and secure;
Proclaiming to lands more troubled -
This your alpine haven.
| Scheme | ABXCAB XXXXDX CAXXXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11001110 10010 10111110 100100 10110100 111110 1101011 010110 01011011 101011 1100010 111101 11011100 010110 10101010 010001 01011110 11110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 500 |
| Words | 82 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on April 24, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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