Analysis of The End of the Book

Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)



My work is finished that has been to me
       My only solace for this many a day.
But whether it in other company
       May so beguile the time and hue the ray
       Of loneliness and thought, I dare not say;
Nor whether with the future it shall be
A thing of note, nor whether presently
       ’Tis doomed to waste like a thin mist away.
Yet whatsoever be its worldly lot,
       I know that, hive-like, it with love is stored,
And that through all its pages I have not
       Written one wilfully misleading word,
       Or traced one feeling that my heart ignored—
One line that truth has counselled me to blot.   


Scheme ABABBAABCDCEDC
Poetic Form
Metre 1111011111 11010111001 1101010100 1101010101 1100011111 1101010111 0111110100 1111101101 101011101 1111111111 0111110111 1011000101 1111011101 111111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 632
Words 112
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 445
Words per stanza (avg) 110
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Charles Harpur

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