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.
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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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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 21, 2023
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