Analysis of The Poet's Empire
Frederick George Scott 1861 (Montreal, Quebec) – 1944 (Quebec City, Quebec)
WHAT power can break the inner harmonies,
The rich imaginings, heard like distant sea
O'er purple meadow-lands at eve, while we
Look starwards mute? Hopes that like mountains rise
Into mid-heaven, and to entrancèd eyes
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Horizon-glories of what is to be,—
All these and more lie round us infinitely,
Beyond all language fair in cloudless skies.
This is the poet's empire. Here may he
Reign king-like, throned in splendour and in power
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No power can shake, so he indeed be king.
Free as the wind, untamèd as the sea,
When earth weighs heavily, most in that hour
He cleaves the heavens in scorn on eagle-wing.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011010100 01111101 1010111111 111111101 0111001111 1 0101011111 11011111000 0111010101 11010100111 1111010010 1 11011110111 110111101 11110010110 11010011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 646 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 477 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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