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 |
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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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