Analysis of And When I Am Entombed In My Place,
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)
And when I am entombed in my place,
Be it remembered of a single man,
He never, though he dearly loved his race,
For fear of human eyes swerved from his plan.
Oh what is Heaven but the fellowship
Of minds that each can stand against the world
By its own meek and incorruptible will?
The days pass over me
And I am still the same;
The aroma of my life is gone
With the flower with which it came.
Scheme | ABAB XXX XCXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101011 1101010101 1101110111 1111011111 111101010 1111110101 1111011 011101 011101 001011111 10101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 410 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 18, 2023
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