Analysis of Response
John Greenleaf Whittier 1807 (Haverhill) – 1892 (Hampton Falls)
Beside that milestone where the level sun,
Nigh unto setting, sheds his last, low rays
On word and work irrevocably done,
Life's blending threads of good and ill outspun,
I hear, O friends! your words of cheer and praise,
Half doubtful if myself or otherwise.
Like him who, in the old Arabian joke,
A beggar slept and crowned Caliph woke.
Thanks not the less. With not unglad surprise
I see my life-work through your partial eyes;
Assured, in giving to my home-taught songs
A higher value than of right belongs,
You do but read between the written lines
The finer grace of unfulfilled designs.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011110101 1101011111 1101010001 110111011 1111111101 11011110 11100101001 010101101 110111101 1111111101 0101011111 0101011101 1111010101 010110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 588 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 470 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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