Analysis of Poets



Children of earth are we,
Lovers of land and sea,
Of hill, of brook, of tree,
Of all things fair;
Of all things dark or bright,
Born of the day and night,
Red rose and lily white
And dusky hair.

Yet not alone from earth
Do we derive our birth.
What were our singing worth
Were this the whole?
Somewhere from heaven afar
Hath dropped a fiery star,
Which makes us what we are,
Which is our soul.


Scheme AAABCCCB DDDEFFFE
Poetic Form
Metre 101111 101101 111111 1111 111111 110101 110101 011 110111 1101101 1010101 0101 111001 1101001 111111 11101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 386
Words 80
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 151
Words per stanza (avg) 39
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Fuller Murray

Robert Fuller Murray, was a Victorian poet. more…

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