Analysis of Imagination
There is a dish to hold the sea,
A brazier to contain the sun,
A compass for the galaxy,
A voice to wake the dead and done!
That minister of ministers,
Imagination, gathers up
The undiscovered Universe,
Like jewels in a jasper cup.
Its flame can mingle north and south;
Its accent with the thunder strive;
The ruddy sentence of its mouth
Can make the ancient dead alive.
The mart of power, the fount of will,
The form and mould of every star,
The source and bound of good and ill,
The key of all the things that are,
Imagination, new and strange
In every age, can turn the year;
Can shift the poles and lightly change
The mood of men, the world's career.
Scheme | ABAB XCXC DEDE FGFG HIHI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11011101 010010101 01010100 01110101 11001100 0010101 001010 11000101 11110101 10110101 01010111 11010101 011100111 010111001 01011101 01110111 0010101 010011101 11010101 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 662 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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