Analysis of J. E. B.

Arthur Sherburne Hardy 1847 (Andover) – 1930 (Woodstock)



Not all the pageant of the setting sun
Should yield the tired eyes of man delight,
No sweet beguiling power had stars at night
To soothe his fainting heart when day is done,
Nor any secret voice of benison
Might nature own, were not each sound and sight
The sign and symbol of the infinite,
The prophecy of things not yet begun.
So had these lips, so early sealed with sleep,
No fruitful word, life no power to move
Our deeper reverence, did we not see
How more than all he said, he was, how, deep
Below this broken life, he ever wove
The finer substance of a life to be.


Scheme ABBAABCADEFDGF
Poetic Form
Metre 1101010101 1101011101 11010101111 1111011111 11010111 1101011101 0101010100 0100111101 1111110111 1101111011 10101001111 1111111111 0111011101 0101010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 558
Words 111
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 447
Words per stanza (avg) 111
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Arthur Sherburne Hardy

Arthur Sherburne Hardy was an American engineer, educator, editor, diplomat, novelist, and poet. more…

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