Analysis of Alone
I’ve listened: and all the sounds I heard
Were music,—wind, and stream, and bird.
With youth who sang from hill to hill
I’ve listened: my heart is hungry still.
I’ve looked: the morning world was green;
Bright roofs and towers of town I’ve seen;
And stars, wheeling through wingless night.
I’ve looked: and my soul yet longs for light.
I’ve thought: but in my sense survives
Only the impulse of those lives
That were my making. Hear me say
‘I’ve thought!’—and darkness hides my day.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF |
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Poetic Form | ~Minute Poem |
Metre | 110010111 01010101 11111111 110111101 11010111 110101111 0110111 110111111 11101101 10010111 10110111 11010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 510 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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