Analysis of The Amulet
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)
Your picture smiles as first it smiled,
The ring you gave is still the same,
Your letter tells, O changing child,
No tidings since it came.
Give me an amulet
That keeps intelligence with you,
Red when you love, and rosier red,
And when you love not, pale and blue.
Alas, that neither bonds nor vows
Can certify possession;
Torments me still the fear that love
Died in its last expression.
Scheme | ABAB XCXC XDXD |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11011111 01111101 11011101 110111 111100 11010011 111101001 01111101 01110111 110010 1110111 1011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 385 |
Words | 73 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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