Analysis of Sestet
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)
SENT TO A FRIEND WITH A VOLUME OF TENNYSON
Wouldst thou know the knightly clash of steel on steel?
Or list the throstle singing loud and clear?
Or walk at twilight by some haunted mere
In Surrey; or in throbbing London feel
Life's pulse at highest--hark, the minster's peal! . . .
Turn but the page, that various world is here!
| Scheme | X ABBAAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110110101100 11101011111 110110101 111111101 0101010101 111101011 11011100111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 334 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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