Analysis of Deep In the Quiet Wood
James Weldon Johnson 1871 (Jacksonville) – 1938 (Wiscasset)
Are you bowed down in heart?
Do you but hear the clashing discords and the din of life?
Then come away, come to the peaceful wood,
Here bathe your soul in silence. Listen! Now,
From out the palpitating solitude
Do you not catch, yet faint, elusive strains?
They are above, around, within you, everywhere.
Silently listen! Clear, and still more clear, they come.
They bubble up in rippling notes, and swell in singing tones.
Not let your soul run the whole gamut of the wondrous scale
Until, responsive to the tonic chord,
It touches the diapason of God's grand cathedral organ,
Filling earth for you with heavenly peace
And holy harmonies.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 1111010100111 1101110101 1111010101 110100010 1111110101 11010101110 100101011111 110101001010101 11111011010101 0101010101 1100111101010 1011111001 010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 634 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 504 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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