Analysis of Adequacy
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 (Kelloe) – 1861 (Florence)
NOW, by the verdure on thy thousand hills,
Beloved England, doth the earth appear
Quite good enough for men to overbear
The will of God in, with rebellious wills !
We cannot say the morning-sun fulfils
Ingloriously its course, nor that the clear
Strong stars without significance insphere
Our habitation: we, meantime, our ills
Heap up against this good and lift a cry
Against this work-day world, this ill-spread feast,
As if ourselves were better certainly
Than what we come to. Maker and High Priest,
I ask thee not my joys to multiply,--
Only to make me worthier of the least.
Scheme | ABBAABBACDEDCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111101 011010101 11011111 0111010101 110101011 1111101 110101001 1001011101 1101110101 0111111111 11001010100 1111110011 111111110 10111100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 575 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 460 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 06, 2023
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