Analysis of On being given a piece of edelweiss before visiting switzerland
Frederick George Scott 1861 (Montreal, Quebec) – 1944 (Quebec City, Quebec)
THINE everlasting mountains and their snows
And awful silence, floweret, know I not;
I have not wandered to thy native spot
Among the crags, but oft as I repose,
Musing by winter fire at daylight's close,
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In fancy have I viewed those depths of sky
And infinite clouded crags, while fronting high,
Peak upon peak, the eternal Alps uprose.
Mysterious power, God-planted in the soul,
That thus transcends all space and the confined
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Limits of sense, Imagination hail!
Pledge art thou of that life when death shall roll
Back our flesh prison-bars, and the freed mind
Shall grasp the giant truths behind the veil.
Scheme | ABBACDEEAFGDHFGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010011 010101111 1111011101 0101111101 1011010111 1 0101111111 01001011101 1011001011 010010110001 1101110001 1 101100101 1111111111 11011010011 1101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 645 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 488 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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