Analysis of Nilsson
Sidney Lanier 1842 (Macon) – 1881 (Lynn)
A rose of perfect red, embossed
With silver sheens of crystal frost,
Yet warm, nor life nor fragrance lost.
High passion throbbing in a sphere
That Art hath wrought of diamond clear,
-- A great heart beating in a tear.
The listening soul is full of dreams
That shape the wondrous-varying themes
As cries of men or plash of streams.
Or noise of summer rain-drops round
That patter daintily a-ground
With hints of heaven in the sound.
Or noble wind-tones chanting free
Through morning-skies across the sea
Wild hymns to some strange majesty.
O, if one trope, clear-cut and keen,
May type the art of Song's best queen,
White-hot of soul, white-chaste of mien,
On Music's heart doth Nilsson dwell
As if a Swedish snow-flake fell
Into a glowing flower-bell.
Scheme | AAA BBX CCC DDD EEE FFF GGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01101101 11011101 11111101 11010001 11111101 01110001 010011111 110101001 11111111 11110111 110101 11110001 11011101 11010101 11111100 11111101 11011111 11111111 11011101 11010111 01010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 740 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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