Analysis of St Michael's Chapel

Emma Lazarus 1849 (New York City) – 1887 (New York City)



When the vexed hubbub of our world of gain
Roars round about me as I walk the street,
The myriad noise of Traffic, and the beat
Of Toil's incessant hammer, the fierce strain
Of struggle hand to hand and brain to brain,
Ofttimes a sudden dream my sense will cheat,
The gaudy shops, the sky-piled roofs retreat,
And all at once I stand enthralled again
Within a marble minster over-seas.
I watch the solemn gold-stained gloom that creeps
To kiss an alabaster tomb, where sleeps
A lady 'twixt two knights' stone effigies,
And every day in dusky glory steeps
Their sculptured slumber of five centuries.


Scheme ABBAABBCDEEDDD
Poetic Form
Metre 10110110111 1101111101 01001110001 1101010011 1101110111 101011111 0101011101 0111110101 0101010101 1101011111 111100111 01011111 0100101101 1101011100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 606
Words 107
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 477
Words per stanza (avg) 105
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Emma Lazarus

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