Analysis of The Chain I Gave: From The Turkish
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
The chain I gave was fair to view,
The lute I added sweet in sound;
The heart that offer'd both was true,
And ill deserved the fate it found.
These gifts were charm'd by secret spell,
Thy truth in absence to divine;
And they have done their duty well,
Alas! they could not teach the thine.
That chain was firm in every link,
But not to bear a stranger's touch;
That lute was sweet, till thou could'st think
In other hands its notes were such.
Let him who from thy neck unbound
The chain which shiver'd in his grasp,
Who saw that lute refuse to sound,
Restring the chords, renew the clasp.
When thou wert changed, they alter'd too;
The chain is broke, the music mute.
'Tis past, to them and thee adieu
False heart, frail chain, and silent lute.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF BGBG AHAH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01111111 01110101 01110111 01010111 11011101 11010101 01111101 01111101 111101001 11110101 111111111 01011101 11111101 01110011 11110111 1010101 11111101 01110101 11110101 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 735 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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