Analysis of Bohemia
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
Bohemia, o'er thy unatlassed borders
How many cross, with half-reluctant feet,
And unformed fears of dangers and disorders,
To find delights, more wholesome and more sweet
Than ever yet were known to the "elite."
Herein can dwell no pretence and no seeming;
No stilted pride thrives in this atmosphere,
Which stimulates a tendency to dreaming.
The shores of the ideal world, from here,
Seem sometimes to be tangible and near.
We have no use for formal codes of fashion;
No "Etiquette f Courts" we emulate;
We know it needs sincerity and passion
To carry out the plans of God, or fate;
We do not strive to seem inanimate.
We call no time lost that we give to pleasure;
Life's hurrying river speeds to Death's great sea;
We cast out no vain plummet-line to measure
Imagined depths of that unknown To-Be,
But grasp the Now, and fill it full of glee.
All creeds have room here, and we all together
Devoutly worship at Art's sacred shrine;
But he who dwells once in thy golden weather,
Bohemia--sweet, lovely land of mine--
Can find no joy outside thy border-line.
Scheme | ABABB CDCXD EFEFX GHGHH GIGII |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0100101110 1101110101 00111100010 1101110011 1101011001 0111110110 110110110 1100100110 011001111 1011110001 11111101110 110011110 11110100010 1101011111 1111110100 11111111110 11001011111 11111101110 0101110111 1101011111 11111011010 0101011101 11111011010 0100110111 1111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,063 |
Words | 189 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 166 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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