Analysis of Shakespeare's Festival
Katharine Lee Bates 1859 (Falmouth) – 1929 (Wellesley)
WHILE we keep our Poet's Tercentennial,
Every school and city with its emulous
Antic or solemnity, what tremulous
Laughter on the air! O Puck perennial!
Leave us clumsy mortals to our drolleries,
Strenuous gambols of Shakespearean gratitude,
And be off to find him in Beatitude,
Win his genial glance with elf cajoleries,
And then tell him of our sage frivolity
Till his golden laughter wake eternity,
And about him flock his old fraternity,
All his scapegrace fellows of the quality,
Greene not jealous, Heminge no more stammering,
Marlowe one white flame of passion glorious,
Rare Ben modest, vagabonds victorious,
All about the Master crowding, clamoring,
Talking all at once in odes and triolets,
Sonnets like the stars for prodigality,
While Will Shakespeare loafs with Immortality
On a stolen bank of Arden violets.
Scheme | ABBABCCBDDDDEBBEBCDB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 1001010111 10101001100 10101110100 1110101101 1001110010 01111101 11101111 011111010100 11101010100 00111110100 1111010100 11101111 1111110100 11101000100 10101010100 101110101 1010111 111110100 10101110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 810 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 668 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 132 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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