Analysis of To Miss Annie Hopkins
Henry Kendall 1839 (Australia) – 1882 (Sydney)
BENEATH the shelter of the bush,
In undisturbed repose—
Unruffled by the kiss of breeze—
There lurks a smiling rose;
Beneath thine outer beauty, gleams,
In holy light enshrined,
A symbol of the blooming flower,
A pure, unspotted mind.
The lovely tint that crowns the hill
When westward sinks the sun,
The milder dazzle in the stream
That evening sits upon,
The morning blushes, mantling o’er
The face of land and sea,
They all recall to mind the charms
That are combined in thee!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010101 00101 01010111 110101 01110101 010101 010101010 0111 01011101 110101 01010001 110101 0101011 011101 1111101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 478 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 190 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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