Analysis of Opportunity
Helen Hunt Jackson 1830 (Amherst, Massachusetts) – 1885 (San Francisco)
I do not know if, climbing some steep hill,
Through fragrant wooded pass, this glimpse I bought,
Or whether in some mid-day I was caught
To upper air, where visions of God’s will
In pictures to our quickened sense fulfil
His word. But this I saw.
A path I sought
Through wall of rock. No human fingers wrought
The golden gates which opened sudden, still,
And wide. My fear was hushed by my delight.
Surpassing fair the lands; my path lay plain;
Alas, so spell-bound, feasting on the sight,
I paused, that I but reached the threshold bright,
When, swinging swift, the golden gates again
Were rocky wall, by which I wept in vain.
Scheme | ABBAACDDAEFEEGF |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111110111 1101011111 1100111111 1101110111 0101101011 111111 0111 1111110101 0101110101 0111111101 0101011111 0111110101 111111011 1101010101 0101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 662 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 488 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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