Analysis of Margaret Fuller
Amos Bronson Alcott 1799 (Wolcott, Connecticut) – 1888 (Boston, Massachusetts)
THOU, Sibyl rapt! whose sympathetic soul
Infused the myst’ries thy tongue failed to tell;
Though from thy lips the marvellous accents fell,
And weird wise meanings o’er the senses stole,
Through those rare cadences, with winsome spell;
Yet even in such refrainings of thy voice
There struggled up a wailing undertone,
That spoke thee victim of the Sisters’ choice,—
Charming all others, dwelling still alone.
They left thee thus disconsolate to roam,
And scorned thy dear, devoted life to spare.
Around the storm-tost vessel sinking there
The wild waves chant thy dirge and welcome home;
Survives alone thy sex’s valiant plea,
And the great heart that loved the brave and free.
Scheme | ABBABCDCDEFFEGG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 110110101 010111111 111101101 0111010101 1111001101 110011111 110101010 1111010101 1011010101 1111111 0111010111 0101110101 0111110101 010111101 0011110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 706 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 544 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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