Analysis of Near Helikon

Trumbull Stickney 1874 (Geneva) – 1904



By such an all-embalming summer day
As sweetens now among the mountain pines
Down to the cornland yonder and the vines,
To where the sky and sea are mixed in gray,
How do all things together take their way
Harmonious to the harvest, bringing wines
And bread and light and whatsoe'er combines
In the large wreath to make it round and gay.
To me my troubled life doth now appear
Like scarce distinguishable summits hung
Around the blue horizon: places where
Not even a traveller purposeth to steer, --
Whereof a migrant bird in passing sung,
And the girl closed her window not to hear.


Scheme ABBAABBACDECDF
Poetic Form
Metre 1111010101 1101010101 110110001 1101011101 1111010111 01001010101 01010101 0011111101 1111011101 1101000101 0101010101 1100100111 101010101 0011010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 583
Words 107
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 467
Words per stanza (avg) 105
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Trumbull Stickney

Joseph Trumbull Stickney was an American classical scholar and poet. more…

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