Analysis of The Apology
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)
Think me not unkind and rude
That I walk alone in grove and glen;
I go to the god of the wood
To fetch his word to men.
Tax not my sloth that I
Fold my arms beside the brook;
Each cloud that floated in the sky
Writes a letter in my book.
Chide me not, laborious band,
For the idle flowers I brought;
Every aster in my hand
Goes home loaded with a thought.
There was never mystery
But 'tis figured in the flowers;
Was never secret history
But birds tell it in the bowers.
One harvest from thy field
Homeward brought the oxen strong;
A second crop thine acres yield,
Which I gather in a song.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1110101 111010101 11101101 111111 111111 1110101 11110001 1010011 11101001 10101011 10010011 1110101 1110100 11100010 11010100 11110010 110111 1010101 01011101 1110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 594 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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