Analysis of Compensation
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)
Why should I keep holiday,
When other men have none?
Why but because when these are gay,
I sit and mourn alone.
And why when mirth unseals all tongues
Should mine alone be dumb?
Ah! late I spoke to silent throngs,
And now their hour is come.
| Scheme | AXAX XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 111110 110111 11011111 110101 0111111 110111 11111101 0111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 242 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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