Analysis of The Poetry of A Root Crop
Charles Kingsley 1819 – 1875
Underneath their eider-robe
Russet swede and golden globe,
Feathered carrot, burrowing deep,
Steadfast wait in charmed sleep;
Treasure-houses wherein lie,
Locked by angels' alchemy,
Milk and hair, and blood, and bone,
Children of the barren stone;
Children of the flaming Air,
With his blue eye keen and bare,
Spirit-peopled smiling down
On frozen field and toiling town-
Toiling town that will not heed
God His voice for rage and greed;
Frozen fields that surpliced lie,
Gazing patient at the sky;
Like some marble carven nun,
With folded hands when work is done,
Who mute upon her tomb doth pray,
Till the resurrection day.
Scheme | AABBCDEEFFGGHHCCIIJJ |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 01111 1010101 10101001 11011 1010011 1110100 1010101 1010101 1010101 1111101 1010101 11010101 1011111 1111101 101111 1010101 111011 11011111 11010111 100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 629 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 499 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 103 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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