Analysis of Elizabeth
Edgar Allan Poe 1809 (Boston) – 1849 (Baltimore)
Elizabeth, it surely is most fit
[Logic and common usage so commanding]
In thy own book that first thy name be writ,
Zeno and other sages notwithstanding;
And I have other reasons for so doing
Besides my innate love of contradiction;
Each poet - if a poet - in pursuing
The muses thro' their bowers of Truth or Fiction,
Has studied very little of his part,
Read nothing, written less - in short's a fool
Endued with neither soul, nor sense, nor art,
Being ignorant of one important rule,
Employed in even the theses of the school-
Called - I forget the heathenish Greek name
[Called anything, its meaning is the same]
"Always write first things uppermost in the heart."
Scheme | ABABBCBCDEDEEFFD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100110111 10010101010 0111111111 1001010010 01110101110 0110111010 11010100010 010111011110 1101010111 1101010101 0111011111 10100110101 01010010101 11010111 110110101 111110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 692 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 528 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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