Analysis of Etienne de la Boéce
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)
I serve you not, if you I follow,
Shadow-like, o'er hill and hollow,
And bend my fancy to your leading,
All too nimble for my treading.
When the pilgrimage is done,
And we've the landscape overrun,
I am bitter, vacant, thwarted,
And your heart is unsupported.
Vainly valiant, you have missed
The manhood that should yours resist,
Its complement; but if I could
In severe or cordial mood
Lead you rightly to my altar,
Where the wisest muses falter,
And worship that world-warning spark
Which dazzles me in midnight dark,
Equalizing small and large,
While the soul it doth surcharge,
That the poor is wealthy grown,
And the hermit never alone,
The traveller and the road seem one
With the errand to be done;—
That were a man's and lover's part,
That were Freedom's whitest chart.
Scheme | AABBCCDEFFGHIIJJKKLLCCMM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111110 11101010 011101110 11101110 1010011 010110 11101010 01110010 1010111 0111101 11001111 0011101 11101110 10101010 01011101 111011 100101 1011101 1011101 00101001 010000111 1010111 10010101 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 764 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 609 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 136 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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