Analysis of Assurance

James Oppenheim 1882 – 1932 (New York City)



Yea, there are as many stars under the Earth as over the Earth...

Plenty of room to roll around in has our planet...

And I, at the edge of the porch,

Hearing the crickets shrill in the star-thick armies of grass,

And beholding over the spread of Earth the spread of the heavens...

Drink this deep moment in my pilgrimage,

With a sense of how forever I have been alive,

With a conviction that I shall go on, ever safe, ever growing,

The stars to be included in my travels,
And the future sure before me.


Scheme X X X X X X X X XX
Poetic Form
Metre 1111101100111001 10111101011010 01101101 10010100111011 0010100111011010 1111001100 1011101011101 10010111111011010 01110100110 00101011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 493
Words 96
Sentences 4
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 43
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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James Oppenheim

James Oppenheim was an American poet, novelist, and editor. A lay analyst and early follower of Carl Jung, Oppenheim was also the founder and editor of The Seven Arts, an important early 20th-century literary magazine. He was a well-known writer of short stories and novels. more…

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