Analysis of Live Thy Life
Florence Earle Coates 1850 (Philadelphia) – 1927 (Philadelphia)
Live thy life gallantly and undismayed:
Whatever harms may hide within the shade,
Be thou of fear, my spirit! more afraid.
In earthly pathways evil springeth rife;
But dread not thou, too much, or pain or strife
That plunge thee to the greater depths of life!
What though the storm-cloud holds the bolt that sears?
The eagle of the crag, that nothing fears,
Still, still is young after a hundred years!
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Poetic Form | Triplet |
Metre | 11110001 101110101 1111110101 01011011 1111111111 1111010111 1101110111 0101011101 1111100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 394 |
Words | 71 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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