Analysis of To J. P.
John Greenleaf Whittier 1807 (Haverhill) – 1892 (Hampton Falls)
John Pierpont, the eloquent preacher and poet of Boston.
Not as a poor requital of the joy
With which my childhood heard that lay of thine,
Which, like an echo of the song divine
At Bethlehem breathed above the Holy Boy,
Bore to my ear the Airs of Palestine,--
Not to the poet, but the man I bring
In friendship's fearless trust my offering
How much it lacks I feel, and thou wilt see,
Yet well I know that thou Last deemed with me
Life all too earnest, and its time too short
For dreamy ease and Fancy's graceful sport;
And girded for thy constant strife with wrong,
Like Nehemiah fighting while he wrought
The broken walls of Zion, even thy song
Hath a rude martial tone, a blow in every thought!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010010010110 11011101 111111111 1111010101 1101010101 111101110 1101010111 011011100 1111110111 1111111111 1111001111 110101101 011110111 101010111 01011101011 1011010101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 691 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 15 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 274 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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