Analysis of A Thousand Years
Gamaliel Bradford 1863 (Boston, Massachusetts) – 1932
Just to utter a word,
That is all I desire;
That may still be heard,
When I expire;
That still may glow,
Like a soft, sweet flame,
When others go,
As they lightly came;
That may still be sung
With hopes and fears,
By a careless tongue
In a thousand years.
| Scheme | ABACDEDEFGFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111001 1111010 11111 1101 1111 10111 1101 11101 11111 1101 10101 00101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 252 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 194 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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