Analysis of Beauty Imposes
John Shaw Neilson 1872 (Penola, South Australia) – 1942 (Melbourne, Victoria)
Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring,
Grave as the urge within the honeybuds,
It wounds us as we sing.
Beauty is joy that stays not overlong.
Clad in the magic of sincerities,
It rides up in a song.
Beauty imposes chastenings on the heart,
Grave as the birds in last solemnities
Assembling to depart.
| Scheme | ABA ABX CBC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10010100001 11010101 111111 10111111 1001011 111001 100101101 1101011 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 311 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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