Analysis of Ballade Of The Unchanged Beloved
Richard Le Gallienne 1866 (Liverpool) – 1947
When rumour fain would fright my ear
With the destruction and decay
Of things familiar and dear,
And vaunt of a swift-running day
That sweeps the fair old Past away;
Whatever else be strange and new,
All other things may go or stay,
So that there be no change in you.
These loud mutations others fear
Find me high-fortressed 'gainst dismay,
They trouble not the tranquil sphere
That hallows with immortal ray
The world where love and lovers stray
In glittering gardens soft with dew--
O let them break and burn and slay,
So that there be no change in you.
Let rapine its republics rear,
And murder its red sceptre sway,
Their blood-stained riot comes not near
The quiet haven where we pray,
And work and love and laugh and play;
Unchanged, our skies are ever blue,
Nothing can change, for all they say,--
So that there be no change in you.
Princess, let wild men brag and bray,
The pure, the beautiful, the true.
Change not, and changeless we as they--
So that there be no change in you.
Scheme | xabaacaC babaacaC babaacaC acaC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011111 10010001 1101001 01101101 11011101 1011101 11011111 11111101 11010101 1111101 11010101 11010101 01110101 010010111 11110101 11111101 1110101 01011101 11110111 01010111 01010101 011011101 10111111 11111101 10111101 01010001 1101111 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 984 |
Words | 187 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 193 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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