Analysis of Nemesis
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)
Already blushes in thy cheek
The bosom-thought which thou must speak;
The bird, how far it haply roam
By cloud or isle, is flying home;
The maiden fears, and fearing runs
Into the charmed snare she shuns;
And every man, in love or pride,
Of his fate is never wide.
Will a woman's fan the ocean smooth?
Or prayers the stony Parcae sooth,
Or coax the thunder from its mark?
Or tapers light the chaos dark?
In spite of Virtue and the Muse,
Nemesis will have her dues,
And all our struggles and our toils
Tighter wind the giant coils.
Scheme | AABBCCDD EEFFGGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010011 01011111 0111111 11111101 01010101 0101111 010010111 1111101 101010101 1101011 11010111 11010101 01110001 1001101 0110100101 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 538 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 207 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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