Analysis of Bedouin
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
O love is like an untamed steed!--
So hot of heart and wild of speed,
And with fierce freedom so in love,
The desert is not vast enough,
With all its leagues of glimmering sands,
To pasture it! Ah, that my hands
Were more than human in their strength,
That my deft lariat at length
Might safely noose this splendid thing
That so defies all conquering!
Ho! but to see it whirl and reel--
The sands spurt forward--and to feel
The quivering tension of the thong
That throned me high, with shriek and song!
To grapple tufts of tossing mane--
To spurn it to its feet again,
And then, sans saddle, rein or bit,
To lash the mad life out of it!
Scheme | AABCDDEEFFGGHHIJKK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 11110111 01110101 01011101 111111001 11011111 01110011 11110011 11011101 11011100 11111101 01110011 010010101 11111101 11011101 11111101 01110111 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 627 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 490 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 122 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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