Analysis of Crossed Threads
Helen Hunt Jackson 1830 (Amherst, Massachusetts) – 1885 (San Francisco)
The silken threads by viewless spinners spun,
Which float so idly on the summer air,
And help to make each summer morning fair,
Shining like silver in the summer sun,
Are caught by wayward breezes, one by one,
Are blown to east and west and fastened there,
Weaving on all the roads their sudden snare.
No sign which road doth safest, freest run,
The wingèd insects know, that soar so gay
To meet their death upon each summer day.
How dare we any human deed arraign;
Attempt to recon any moment's cost;
Or any pathway trust as safe and plain
Because we see not where the threads have crossed?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010111101 1111010101 0111110101 1011000101 1111010111 1111010101 1011011101 1111110101 011111111 1111011101 1111010101 0111010101 110111101 0111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 600 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 466 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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