Analysis of Flower-De-Luce: Giotto's Tower
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
How many lives, made beautiful and sweet
By self-devotion and by self-restraint,
Whose pleasure is to run without complaint
On unknown errands of the Paraclete,
Wanting the reverence of unshodden feet,
Fail of the nimbus which the artists paint
Around the shining forehead of the saint,
And are in their completeness incomplete!
In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower,
The lily of Florence blossoming in stone,--
A vision, a delight, and a desire,--
The builder's perfect and centennial flower,
That in the night of ages bloomed alone,
But wanting still the glory of the spire.
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Metre | 1101110001 1101001101 1101110101 10110101 100100111 1101010101 0101010101 0101010001 0011011110 01011010001 01000100010 010010010010 1001110101 1101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 591 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 466 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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