Analysis of To My Good Master
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
In fancy, always, at thy desk, thrown wide,
Thy most betreasured books ranged neighborly--
The rarest rhymes of every land and sea
And curious tongue--thine old face glorified,--
Thou haltest thy glib quill, and, laughing-eyed,
Givest hale welcome even unto me,
Profaning thus thine attic's sanctity,
To briefly visit, yet to still abide
Enthralled there of thy sorcery of wit,
And thy songs' most exceeding dear conceits.
O lips, cleft to the ripe core of all sweets,
With poems, like nectar, issuing therefrom,
Thy gentle utterances do overcome
My listening heart and all the love of it!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010111111 11111100 01011100101 0100111110 111110101 111010101 1111100 1101011101 0111110011 011101011 1111011111 1101101001 1101000110 11001010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 584 |
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) | 465 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 97 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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