Analysis of George Macdonald
Katharine Lee Bates 1859 (Falmouth) – 1929 (Wellesley)
I HEARD him preach in Oxford years ago,
A snowy-haired and tender-faced apostle.
I watched the beech against the window blow,
And listened to the throstle.
And still a waving branch to memory brings
Those deepset eyes and drooping lids as pressed
Upon too much by earthly visionings
And wistful for their rest.
Still in the flutings of a thrush will sound
Words that upon us then but lightly fell,
Because they were as simple and profound
As some brief parable
Told by the Master to the hungry folk,
While the disciples murmured, but the foam
Wrote it again on Patmos, and it spoke
Above the rage of Rome.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEBGHGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010101 01010101010 1101010101 010101 01010111001 111010111 01111101 010111 100110111 1101111101 0110110001 111100 1101010101 1001010101 110111011 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 598 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 485 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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