Analysis of In Tuolumne Meadows
Harriet Monroe 1860 (Chicago) – 1936 (Arequipa)
I Love to sit in the sun
And watch the foaming Lyell
Leap over its granite bed.
I love these days that run
On a burnished golden dial
With the blue sky overhead.
I love to waken at night
And whisper the stars above me,
And feel the fingering breeze.
So still is the world, so right,
Where even the black pines love me,
And the white moon guards my ease.
I love the upward ways
To the sun-tipped crest of the mountains
High over the billowy world;
Where the wind sings hymns of praise,
And the snows break into fountains,
And life is a flag unfurled.
I love—ah, beloved, what bliss
Would shatter the ice like a river
And sing all the way to the sea,
If the world could be lost for this,
And you from your sorrow forever
Could rest on the heart of me !
Scheme | AXBAXB CDECDE FGHFGH IJDIJD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001 010101 1101101 111111 10101010 1011101 1111011 01001011 0101001 1110111 11001111 0011111 110101 101111010 110011 1011111 00110110 0110101 1110111 110011010 01101101 10111111 011110010 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 750 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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