Analysis of Faint and Weary Toiled a Pilgrim
Helen Hunt Jackson 1830 (Amherst, Massachusetts) – 1885 (San Francisco)
'Faint and weary toiled a pilgrim,
Faint and weary of his load;
Sudden came a sweet bird winging
Glad and swift across his road.
''Blessed songster!' cried the pilgrim,
'Where is now the load I bore?
I forget it in thy singing;
Hearing thee, I faint no more,'
'While he spoke the bird went winging
Higher still, and soared away;
'Cruel songster!' cried the pilgrim,
'Cruel songster not to stay!'
'Was the songster cruel? Never!
High above some other road
Glad and swift he still was singing,
Lightening other pilgrims' load!'
Scheme | ABCB ADCD CEAE XBCB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 10101010 1010111 10101110 1010111 111010 1110111 10110110 1011111 11101110 1010101 1011010 101111 1011010 1011101 10111110 10010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 518 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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