Analysis of At Bay Ridge, Long Island
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)
Pleasant it is to lie amid the grass
Under these shady locusts, half the day,
Watching the ships reflected on the Bay,
Topmast and shroud, as in a wizard's glass;
To note the swift and meagre swallow pass,
Brushing the dewdrops from the lilac spray;
Or else to sit and while the noon away
With some old love-tale; or to muse, alas!
On Dante in his exile, sorrow-worn;
On Milton, blind, with inward-seeing eyes
That made their own deep midnight and rich morn;
To think that now, beneath Italian skies,
In such clear air as this, by Tiber's wave,
Daisies are trembling over Keats's grave.
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Metre | 1011110101 1011010101 1001010101 10110011 110101101 10011011 1111010101 1111111101 110011101 1101110101 111111011 1111010101 011111111 1011001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 594 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 456 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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