Analysis of Apollo Laughs
Katharine Lee Bates 1859 (Falmouth) – 1929 (Wellesley)
'APOLLO laughs,' the proverb tells,
Far echo of old oracles,
A Delphic waif, —'Once in the year,
Apollo laughs.' O laughter clear
As sunshine, blithe as golden bells!
What mortal folly parallels
Olympian jest and so impels
To mirth till Heaven's bright charioteer,
Apollo, laughs?
'Tis when the annual critic knells
The death of poetry, while swells
Some faint, fresh wood-note, pioneer
Of music earth shall thrill to hear.
Then at Apollo's infidels
Apollo laughs.
Scheme | abccaaacDaaceaD |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01010101 11011100 01011001 01011101 1111101 1101010 01001011 1111011 0101 110100101 01110011 1111101 11011111 11010100 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 460 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 365 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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