Analysis of Letters
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)
Every day brings a ship,
Every ship brings a word;
Well for those who have no fear,
Looking seaward well assured
That the word the vessel brings
Is the word they wish to hear.
| Scheme | ABCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001101 1001101 1111111 1010101 1010101 1011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 178 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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