Analysis of The Bell
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)
I love thy music, mellow bell,
I love thine iron chime,
To life or death, to heaven or hell,
Which calls the sons of Time.
Thy voice upon the deep
The home-bound sea-boy hails,
It charms his cares to sleep,
It cheers him as he sails.
To house of God and heavenly joys
Thy summons called our sires,
And good men thought thy sacred voice
Disarmed the thunder's fires.
And soon thy music, sad death-bell,
Shall lift its notes once more,
And mix my requiem with the wind
That sweeps my native shore.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD XXXX AEXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11110101 111101 111111011 110111 110101 011111 111111 111111 111101001 1101101 01111101 010110 01110111 111111 011100101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 488 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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