Analysis of Enamored Architect of Airy Rhyme

Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)



Enamored architect of airy rhyme,
Build as thou wilt, heed not what each man says:
Good souls, but innocent of dreamers' ways,
Will come, and marvel why thou wastest time;
Others, beholding how thy turrets climb
'Twixt theirs and heaven, will hate thee all thy days;
But most beware of those who come to praise.
O Wondersmith, O worker in sublime
And heaven-sent dreams, let art be all in all;
Build as thou wilt, unspoiled by praise or blame,
Build as thou wilt, and as thy light is given;
Then, if at last the airy structure fall,
Dissolve, and vanish -- take thyself no shame.
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.


Scheme ABCAACCADEFDEF
Poetic Form
Metre 010101101 1111111111 1111001101 110101111 1001011101 11010111111 1101111111 11110001 01011111101 1111011111 11110111110 1111010101 010101111 11010111110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 636
Words 116
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 485
Words per stanza (avg) 114
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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