Analysis of Tall Ambrosia
Henry David Thoreau 1817 (Concord) – 1862 (Concord)
Among the signs of autumn I perceive
The Roman wormwood (called by learned men
Ambrosia elatior, food for gods,—
For to impartial science the humblest weed
Is as immortal once as the proudest flower—)
Sprinkles its yellow dust over my shoes
As I cross the now neglected garden.
—We trample under foot the food of gods
And spill their nectar in each dropp of dew—
My honest shoes, fast friends that never stray
Far from my couch, thus powdered, countryfied,
Bearing many a mile the marks of their adventure,
At the post-house disgrace the Gallic gloss
Of those well dressed ones who no morning dew
Nor Roman wormwood ever have been through,
Who never walk but are transported rather—
For what old crime of theirs I do not gather.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101110101 01011111 0101111 110101001001 110101101010 1011011011 1110101010 1101010111 0111001111 1101111101 11111101 1010010111010 1011010101 1111111101 110110111 11011101010 11111111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 730 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 582 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 129 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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