Analysis of The Visit
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)
Askest 'How long thou shall stay?'
Devastator of the day!
Know, each substance and relation
Thorough nature's operation,
Hath its unit, bound, and metre,
And every new compound
Is some product and repeater,
Product of the early found.
But the unit of the visit,
The encounter of the wise,
Say what other metre is it
Than the meeting of the eyes?
Nature poureth into nature
Through the channels of that feature.
Riding on the ray of Sight,
More fleet than waves or whirlwinds go,
Or for service or delight,
Hearts to hearts their meaning show,
Sum their long experience,
And import intelligence.
Single look has drained the breast,
Single moment years confessed.
The duration of a glance
Is the term of convenance,
And, though thy rede be church or state,
Frugal multiples of that.
Speeding Saturn cannot halt;
Linger,— thou shall rue the fault,
If Love his moment overstay,
Hatred's swift repulsions play.
Scheme | AABBCDCDEFGFCCHIHIJJKKLFMNOOAA |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 111111 1101 11100010 1010010 11101010 0100110 11100010 1010101 10101010 0010101 11101011 1010101 1010110 10101110 1010111 1111111 1110101 1111101 1110100 0010100 1011101 1010101 0110101 10111 01111111 1010011 1010101 1011101 1111001 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 887 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 30 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 718 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 153 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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