Analysis of The Chartist's Complaint
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)
Day! hast thou two faces,
Making one place two places?
One, by humble farmer seen,
Chill and wet, unlighted, mean,
Useful only, triste and damp,
Serving for a laborer's lamp?
Have the same mists another side,
To be the appanage of pride,
Gracing the rich man's wood and lake,
His park where amber mornings break,
And treacherously bright to show
His planted isle where roses glow?
O Day! and is your mightiness
A sycophant to smug success?
Will the sweet sky and ocean broad
Be fine accomplices to fraud?
O sun! I curse thy cruel ray!
Back, back to chaos, harlot Day!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110 1011110 1110101 10111 1010101 101011 10110101 110111 10011101 11110101 01111 11011101 110111 011101 10110101 11010011 11111101 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 559 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 440 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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