Analysis of Begin The Day



Begin each morning with a talk to God,
And ask for your divine inheritance
Of usefulness, contentment, and success.
Resign all fear, all doubt, and all despair.
The stars doubt not, and they are undismayed,
Though whirled through space for countless centuries,
And told not why or wherefore: and the sea
With everlasting ebb and flow obeys,
And leaves the purpose with the unseen Cause.
The star sheds its radiance on a million worlds,
The sea is prodigal with waves, and yet
No lustre from the star is lost, and not
One dropp missing from the ocean tides.
Oh! brother to the star and sea, know all
God’s opulence is held in trust for those
Who wait serenely and who work in faith.


Scheme ABCDAEFGHIJKLMNO
Poetic Form
Metre 0111010111 0111010100 1100010001 0111110101 01110111 1111110100 011111001 101010101 0101010011 011110010101 0111001101 1101011101 111010101 1101010111 1100110111 11010001101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 681
Words 125
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 538
Words per stanza (avg) 123
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. more…

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