Analysis of East And West
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
The Day has never understood the Gloaming or the Night;
Though sired by one Creative Power, and nursed at Nature's breast;
The White Man ever fails to read the Dark Man's heart aright;
Though from the self-same Source they came, upon the self-same quest;
So deep and wide, the Great Divide,
Between the East and West.
But like a shadow on a screen, mine eyes behold, above
The yawning gulf, a dim forecast, of structures strong and broad;
Where caste, and colour prejudice, by countless feet down trod,
With old traditions crushed by Time, pave smooth the bridge of Love;
And all the creed that men shall heed
Is consciousness of God.
Scheme | ABABXB CXDCXD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111001010101 111101010011101 0111011101111 11011111010111 11010101 010101 1101101110101 0101011110101 1101100110111 11010111110111 01011111 110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 631 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 250 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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