Analysis of Days
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)
Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days,
Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
And marching single in an endless file,
Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.
To each they offer gifts after his will,
Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all.
I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,
Forgot my morning wishes, hastily
Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day
Turned and departed silent. I, too late,
Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.
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Metre | 1011011 1001111 0101001101 1101011 1111011011 1101011111 101110101 0111010100 1011010001 1001010111 1001001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 452 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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