Analysis of To Professor And Mrs. J.S. Blackie
Sydney Thompson Dobell 1824 (Kent) – 1874
If Time that feeds love dies to die no more,
Immortal hours, dear friends, were yours and mine;
For Morn that on the hills oped eyes divine,
And Eve that walked like Mary by the shore
Where that old Dreamer, as he built, of yore,
Saw her, and told his dream in such a shrine
As was a kind of Mary, and the shine
Of Noon, and starry censers swinging o'er
With Night, all made ye dearer: thou whose soul,
Palimpsest of a dead and living world,
Taketh no dust from that nor stain from this,
And thou who with thyself hast so empearled
The writing-knowing well how rare it is-
That the scrolled jewels and the jewelled scroll
In total more than both complete a married whole.
Scheme | ABBAABBCDEFEGDD |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111111111 01010110101 1111011101 0111110101 1111011111 1001110101 1101110001 1101011010 1111110111 11010101 1011111111 01111111 0101011111 101100011 010111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 665 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 524 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 128 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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