Analysis of The Earth
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)
OUR eyeless bark sails free,
Though with boom and spar
Andes, Alp, or Himmalee
Strikes never moon or star.
| Scheme | ABCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Ballad stanza Quatrain Simple 4-line |
| Metre | 1010111 11101 10111 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 111 |
| Words | 21 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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