Analysis of Marriage Bells
Emma Lazarus 1849 (New York City) – 1887 (New York City)
Music and silver chimes and sunlit air,
Freighted with the scent of honeyed orange-flower;
Glad, friendly festal faces everywhere.
She, rapt from all in this unearthly hour,
With cloudlike, cast-back veil and faint-flushed cheek,
In bridal beauty moves as in a trance
Alone with him, and fears to breathe, to speak,
Lest the rare, subtle spell dissolve perchance.
But he upon that floral head looks down,
Noting the misty eyes, the grave sweet brow--
Doubts if her bliss be perfect as his own,
And dedicates anew with inward vow
His soul unto her service, to repay
Richly the sacrifice she yields this day.
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Metre | 100101011 1101111010 11011010 11110101010 111110111 0101011001 0111011111 1011010101 1101110111 1001010111 1101101111 010011101 1110010101 100101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 614 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 481 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 103 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
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