Analysis of A Picture
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
I strolled last eve across the lonely down;
One solitary picture struck my eye:
A distant ploughboy stood against the sky—
How far he seemed above the noisy town!
Upon the bosom of a cloud the sod
Laid its bruised cheek as he moved slowly by,
And, watching him, I asked myself if I
In very truth stood half as near to God.
| Scheme | ABBACBBC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111010101 110010111 010110101 1111010101 0101010101 1111111101 010111111 0101111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 325 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 252 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 31, 2023
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