Analysis of The Triumph Made Routine



There seems no greater triumph than
Impossible accomplished once.
But something more may yet be done:
The triumph made routine.

Where greater spirits labored long,
some day the lesser walk in comfort,
Treading with impunity
Paths geniuses swept clean.

Fruit heroes plucked from frozen peaks
Now grows in every summer garden.
Thus achievement’s handed down
From pinnacle to plain.

And what is left for greatness, then?
To undertake a new achievement,
Venture up an unclimbed mountain,
Triumph once again!


Scheme XXAB XXXB XAXX CXAC
Poetic Form
Metre 11110101 01000101 11011111 010101 11010101 110101010 1010100 110011 11011101 1101001010 1010101 110011 01111101 11001010 1011110 10101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 490
Words 79
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 103
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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