Analysis of Manners
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)
Grace, Beauty, and Caprice
Build this golden portal;
Graceful women, chosen men,
Dazzle every mortal.
Their sweet and lofty countenance
His enchanted food;
He need not go to them, their forms
Beset his solitude.
He looketh seldom in their face,
His eyes explore the ground,--
The green grass is a looking-glass
Whereon their traits are found.
Little and less he says to them,
So dances his heart in his breast;
Their tranquil mien bereaveth him
Of wit, of words, of rest.
Too weak to win, too fond to shun
The tyrants of his doom,
The much deceived Endymion
Slips behind a tomb.
Scheme | ABCBDEFEGHIHJKLKMNCN |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 110001 111010 1010101 1010010 11010100 10101 11111111 01110 1110011 110101 01110101 11111 10011111 11011011 110111 111111 11111111 010111 01011 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 567 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 454 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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