Analysis of Imitation
Edgar Allan Poe 1809 (Boston) – 1849 (Baltimore)
A dark unfathomed tide
Of interminable pride -
A mystery, and a dream,
Should my early life seem;
I say that dream was fraught
With a wild and waking thought
Of beings that have been,
Which my spirit hath not seen,
Had I let them pass me by,
With a dreaming eye!
Let none of earth inherit
That vision of my spirit;
Those thoughts I would control,
As a spell upon his soul:
For that bright hope at last
And that light time have past,
And my worldly rest hath gone
With a sigh as it passed on:
I care not though it perish
With a thought I then did cherish
Scheme | AABBCCDEFFGGHHIIJKLL |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 0111 1010001 0100001 111011 111111 1010101 110111 1110111 1111111 10101 1111010 1101110 111101 1010111 111111 011111 0110111 1011111 1111110 10111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 561 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 430 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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