Analysis of Martha Washington
Sidney Lanier 1842 (Macon) – 1881 (Lynn)
Written for the "Martha Washington Court Journal".
Down cold snow-stretches of our bitter time,
When windy shams and the rain-mocking sleet
Of Trade have cased us in such icy rime
That hearts are scarcely hot enough to beat,
Thy fame, O Lady of the lofty eyes,
Doth fall along the age, like as a lane
Of Spring, in whose most generous boundaries
Full many a frozen virtue warms again.
To-day I saw the pale much-burdened form
Of Charity come limping o'er the line,
And straighten from the bending of the storm
And flush with stirrings of new strength divine,
Such influence and sweet gracious impulse came
Out of the beams of thine immortal name!
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 101010100110 11110110101 1101001101 1111101101 1111010111 1111010101 1101011101 11011100100 11001010101 1111011101 11001101001 0101010101 0111011101 11000110101 1101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 646 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 258 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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