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.   


Scheme ABABBAABCDCDCD
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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Charles Harpur

Charles Harpur was an Australian poet. more…

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