Analysis of Robert Browning
Henry Van Dyke 1852 (Germantown, Pennsylvania) – 1933 (Princeton, New Jersey)
How blind the toil that burrows like the mole,
In winding graveyard pathways underground,
For Browning's lineage! What if men have found
Poor footmen or rich merchants on the roll
Of his forbears? Did they beget his soul?
Nay, for he came of ancestry renowned
Through all the world, -- the poets laurel-crowned
With wreaths from which the autumn takes no toll.
The blazons on his coat-of-arms are these:
The flaming sign of Shelley's heart on fire,
The golden globe of Shakespeare's human stage,
The staff and scrip of Chaucer's pilgrimage,
The rose of Dante's deep, divine desire,
The tragic mask of wise Euripides.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CDXXDC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110101 0101110 11010011111 111110101 111110111 1111110001 1101010101 1111010111 011111111 01011101110 010111101 0101110100 01110101010 0101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 616 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 244 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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