Analysis of Apparition
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
Thin-legged, thin-chested, slight unspeakably,
Neat-footed and weak-fingered: in his face -
Lean, large-boned, curved of beak, and touched with race,
Bold-lipped, rich-tinted, mutable as the sea,
The brown eyes radiant with vivacity -
There shines a brilliant and romantic grace,
A spirit intense and rare, with trace on trace
Of passion and impudence and energy.
Valiant in velvet, light in ragged luck,
Most vain, most generous, sternly critical,
Buffoon and poet, lover and sensualist:
A deal of Ariel, just a streak of Puck,
Much Antony, of Hamlet most of all,
And something of the Shorter-Catechist.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011011 1100110011 1111110111 11110100101 01110011 1101000101 01001011111 110010100 1001010101 11110010100 010101001 01110010111 1100110111 01010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 599 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 474 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 95 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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