Analysis of Near Avalon
William Morris 1834 (Walthamstow) – 1896 (London)
A ship with shields before the sun,
Six maidens round the mast,
A red-gold crown on every one,
A green gown on the last.
The fluttering green banners there
Are wrought with ladies' heads most fair,
And a portraiture of Guenevere
The middle of each sail doth bear.
A ship with sails before the wind,
And round the helm six knights,
Their heaumes are on, whereby, half blind,
They pass by many sights.
The tatter'd scarlet banners there
Right soon will leave the spear-heads bare.
Those six knights sorrowfully bear
In all their heaumes some yellow hair.
Scheme | ABAB CCCC DEDE CCCC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01110101 110101 011111001 011101 01001101 11110111 00111 01011111 01110101 010111 11110111 111101 01010101 11110111 11111 01111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 545 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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