Analysis of Proem
Amos Bronson Alcott 1799 (Wolcott, Connecticut) – 1888 (Boston, Massachusetts)
Long left unwounded by the grisly foe,
Who sometime pierces all with fatal shaft,
Still on my cheek fresh youth did lively glow,
And at his threatening arrow gaily laught;
Came then my friendly scholar, and we quaffed
From learning's spring, its sparkling overflow;
All through the lingering evening's charmèd hours,
Delightful fellowship in thought was ours:
If I from Poesy could not all abstain,
He my poor verses oft did quite undress,
New wrapt in words my thought's veiled nakedness,
Or kindly clipt my steed's luxuriant mane:
'Twas my delight his searching eye to meet,
In days of genial versing, memories sweet.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 11111101 1111111101 01110010101 1111010011 11111010 110100101110 0101001110 111111101 1111011101 11011111 11011101001 1101110111 0111011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 616 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 495 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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