Analysis of Yes
Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)
MY SOUL is raying like a star,
My heart is happier than a bird,
And all to hear through fortune’s jar
One promissory word.
A sound as simple as the low
Quick sliding gurgle of a rill,
And yet with power to overflow
A world with blissful will!
I feel as though the very air
Was breathen from the heart of Love,
As Pleasure in the sun’s bright lair
Sat brooding like a dove!
A billow of the sunny sea,
A cloudlet of the summer sky,
How wide is their felicity—
So widely blest am I!
O Beauty, through one little word
What boundless power is thine to bless!
O Love, a seraph’s voice is heard
In thy confiding “Yes!”
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH BIBI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111101 111100101 01111101 11001 01110101 11010101 01110110 011101 11110101 1110111 11000111 110101 01010101 0110101 11110100 110111 11011101 110101111 1101111 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 612 |
| Words | 123 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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