Analysis of The Poet Care
Victor James Daley 1858 – 1905
CARE is a Poet fine:
He works in shade or shine,
And leaves—you know his sign!—
No day without its line.
He writes with iron pen
Upon the brows of men;
Faint lines at first, and then
He scores them in again.
His touch at first is light
On Beauty’s brow of white;
The old churl loves to write
On foreheads broad and bright.
A line for young love crossed,
A line for fair hopes lost
In an untimely frost—
A line that means Thou Wast.
Then deeper script appears:
The furrows of dim fears,
The traces of old tears,
The tide-marks of the years.
To him with sight made strong
By suffering and wrong,
The brows of all the throng
Are eloquent with song.
Scheme | AAAA BBBB CCCC DDDC EEXE FFFF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 110101 110111 011111 110111 111101 010111 111101 111001 111111 11111 011111 11101 011111 011111 010101 011111 110101 01111 010111 011101 111111 110001 011101 110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 643 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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