Analysis of Life and Art
Emma Lazarus 1849 (New York City) – 1887 (New York City)
Not while the fever of the blood is strong,
The heart throbs loud, the eyes are veiled, no less
With passion than with tears, the Muse shall bless
The poet-sould to help and soothe with song.
Not then she bids his trembling lips express
The aching gladness, the voluptuous pain.
Life is his poem then; flesh, sense, and brain
One full-stringed lyre attuned to happiness.
But when the dream is done, the pulses fail,
The day's illusion, with the day's sun set,
He, lonely in the twilight, sees the pale
Divine Consoler, featured like Regret,
Enter and clasp his hand and kiss his brow.
Then his lips ope to sing--as mine do now.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010111 0111011111 1101110111 0101110111 11111100101 0101001001 1111011101 1111011100 1101110101 0101010111 110001101 01110101 1001110111 1111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 635 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 488 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 27, 2023
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