Analysis of Waves
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)
ALL day the waves assailed the rock,
I heard no church-bell chime;
The sea-beat scorns the minster clock
And breaks the glass of Time.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11010101 111111 01110101 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 139 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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