Analysis of Eidolons
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)
Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights
That flash on lone morasses, the quick wind
That smites us by the roadside are the Night's
Innumerable children. Unconfined
By shroud or coffin, disembodied souls,
Still on probation, steal into the air
From ancient battlefields and churchyard knolls
At the day's ending. Pestilence and despair
Fly with the startled bats at set of sun;
And wheresoever murders have been done,
In crowded palaces or lonely woods,
Where'er a soul has sold itself and lost
Its high inheritance, there, hovering, broods
Some mute, invisible, accursèd ghost.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101111 1111010011 111101101 010001001 1111000101 1101010101 11010011 10110100001 1101011111 0110111 0101001101 1001110101 11010011001 110100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 597 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 475 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 94 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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