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.
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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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