Analysis of Love And Thought

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)



Two well-assorted travellers use
The highway, Eros and the Muse.
From the twins is nothing hidden,
To the pair is naught forbidden;
Hand in hand the comrades go
Every nook of nature through:
Each for other they were born,
Each can other best adorn;
They know one only mortal grief
Past all balsam or relief,
When, by false companions crossed,
The pilgrims have each other lost.


Scheme ABCCDEFFGGHH
Poetic Form
Metre 110101001 0110001 10111010 10111100 101011 10011101 1110101 1110101 11110101 1110101 1110101 01011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 374
Words 68
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 300
Words per stanza (avg) 66
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 18, 2023

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. more…

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