Analysis of Lines on and from
Franklin P. Adams 1881 (Chicago, Illinois) – 1960 (New York City, New York)
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Of making many books there is no end--
So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.
Thou wert my guide, philosopher and friend
When only one is shining in the sky.
Books cannot always please, however good;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
To be great is to be misunderstood,
The anointed soverign of sighs and groans.
The Moving Finger writes, and having writ,
I never write as funny as I can.
Remote, unfriendly, studious let me sit
And say to all the world, "This was a man!"
Go, lovely Rose, that lives its little hour!
Go, little booke! and let who will be clever!
Roll on! From yonder ivy-mantled tower
The moon and I could keep this up forever.
Scheme | X ABAB CDCD EFEF GGGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101101011100100101101001010010101110101010101011010101010101110101111011111001001010010100 1101011111 1101010111 1111010001 1101110001 11011101 01111111 111111001 001011101 0101010101 1101110111 01010100111 0111011101 11011111010 11010111110 1111010110 01011111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 997 |
Words | 184 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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