Analysis of Ophelia
She,
Mad from grief
Her dearest one was now forever gone.
'Tis murder leading her to such despair.
To love in vain
Never has been the greatest pain.
She searched for warmth in nature
So full of flowers as it was,
Poppies and daisies and pansies,
Symbols of death,
Of innocence
Of love not meant to be
For this,
She falls into a stream of waters
That keep her soul warm,
While floating,
Holding those tokens of new feelings
In her hands.
| Scheme | ABCDEEFGHIJAKLMNOP |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1 111 0101110101 1101001101 1101 10110101 1111010 11110111 10010010 1011 1100 111111 11 110101110 11011 110 101101110 001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 442 |
| Words | 94 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 18 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 343 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 82 |
About this poem
Inspired by Ophelia, an 1851–1852 painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais in the collection of Tate Britain, London. It depicts Ophelia, a character from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river.
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