Analysis of To An American Embassy
Sydney Thompson Dobell 1824 (Kent) – 1874
Written At Florence, 1866:
Since Sovereign Nature, at the happy best,
Is rightful and sole paragon of Art,
Who, tho' she but in part, and part by part,
Paints, carves, or sings the whole, is still possest
By thee, all thee, oh somewhere unconfest
Apollo! in the worlds of men who art
A man, and, with a human body and heart,
Lookest her visible truths, and livest the rest;
Surely that strategy was well design'd
Which, laying siege to Art's proud Capital,
Armed not, against her matchless pow'rs-that-be,
Music, Painting, Sculpture, Poetry,
But sent a living womanhood of all
To queen, by their own laws, the masters of mankind.
Scheme | X ABBAABBACXDDXC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10110 1101010101 110011011 1111010111 111101111 1111111 0100011111 01010101001 1010010101 1011001101 1101111100 110101111 101010100 110101011 111111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 623 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 243 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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