Analysis of Unity

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



Space is ample, east and west,
But two cannot go abreast,
Cannot travel in it two:
Yonder masterful cuckoo
Crowds every egg out of the nest,
Quick or dead, except its own;
A spell is laid on sod and stone,
Night and day were tampered with,
Every quality and pith
Surcharged and sultry with a power
That works its will on age and hour.


Scheme AABBACCDEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 1110101 1110101 1010011 101001 110011101 1110111 01111101 1010101 10010001 10101010 111111010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 332
Words 66
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 261
Words per stanza (avg) 64
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 20, 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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