Analysis of Laying Up Treasure
John Greenleaf Whittier 1807 (Haverhill) – 1892 (Hampton Falls)
From the Mahabharata.
Before the Ender comes, whose charioteer
Is swift or slow Disease, lay up each year
Thy harvests of well-doing, wealth that kings
Nor thieves can take away. When all the things
Thou tallest thine, goods, pleasures, honors fall,
Thou in thy virtue shalt survive them all.
| Scheme | X AABBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1000010 01010111 1111011111 1101110111 1111011101 1101110101 1011010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 294 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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