Analysis of Perché Pensa? Pensando s'Invecchia
Arthur Hugh Clough 1819 (Liverpool) – 1861 (Florence)
To spend uncounted years of pain,
Again, again, and yet again,
In working out in heart and brain
The problem of our being here;
To gather facts from far and near,
Upon the mind to hold them clear,
And, knowing more may yet appear,
Unto one's latest breath to fear
The premature result to draw--
Is this the object, end and law,
And purpose of our being here?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111 01010101 01010101 010110101 11011101 01011111 01011101 10110111 0010111 11010101 010110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 356 |
Words | 70 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 276 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 68 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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