Analysis of Heredity
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)
A soldier of the Cromwell stamp,
With sword and psalm-book by his side,
At home alike in church and camp:
Austere he lived, and smileless died.
But she, a creature soft and fine-
From Spain, some say, some say from France;
Within her veins leapt blood like wine-
She led her Roundhead lord a dance!
In Grantham church they lie asleep;
Just where, the verger may not know.
Strange that two hundred years should keep
The old ancestral fires aglow!
In me these two have met again;
To each my nature owes a part:
To one, the cool and reasoning brain;
To one, the quick, unreasoning heart.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF XGXG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01010101 11011111 11010101 0111011 11010101 11111111 01011111 1101101 01011101 1101111 11110111 010101001 01111101 11110101 110101001 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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