Analysis of A Common Thought
Henry Timrod 1828 (Charleston) – 1867 (Columbia)
Somewhere on this earthly planet
In the dust of flowers to be,
In the dewdrop, in the sunshine,
Sleeps a solemn day for me.
At this wakeful hour of midnight
I behold it dawn in mist,
And I hear a sound of sobbing
Through the darkness -- hist! oh, hist!
In a dim and murky chamber,
I am breathing life away;
Some one draws a curtain softly,
And I watch the broadening day.
As it purples in the zenith,
As it brightens on the lawn,
There's a hush of death about me,
And a whisper, "He is gone!"
Scheme | ABXB XXXA XCBC XDBD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 1111010 00111011 001001 1010111 1111011 1011101 01101110 1010111 00101010 1110101 11101010 01101001 11100010 1110101 10111011 0010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 485 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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