Analysis of Decima
George Santayana 1863 (Madrid) – 1952 (Rome)
Silent daisies out of reach,
Maidens of the starry grass,
Gazing on me as I pass
With a look too wise for speech,
Teach me resignation,--teach
Patience to the barren clod,
As, above your happier sod,
Bending to the wind's caress,
You--unplucked, alas!--no less
Sweetly manifest the god.
| Scheme | ABBAACCDDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Décimal |
| Metre | 1010111 1010101 1011111 1011111 110101 1010101 10111001 1010101 110111 101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 294 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 221 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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