Analysis of To My Young Countryman D.H.D.
Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)
Who doubteth, when the morning star doth light
Her lamp of beauty, that the day is coming?
Or, where prime odours track the breezes’ flight,
That rare flowers in the vicinage are blooming?
Or, where the wild bees all about are humming,
That honey’s stored in some near cedar’s height?
Or, that the sea is heaving into sight
When more and more long surgy rolls come booming?
And surely, as the observer understands
What each of these foretokens in its kind,
Thy manhood’s mental amplitude expands
Before me in its omens, when I find
Something of promise fashioned by thy hands,
Some blossom breathing of thy forming mind.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010111 01110101110 111110101 1110001110 11011101110 1101011101 1101110011 1101111110 0101001001 11111011 11101001 0110110111 1011010111 1101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 688 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 493 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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