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.
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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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