Analysis of An Artist Of The Beautiful
John Greenleaf Whittier 1807 (Haverhill) – 1892 (Hampton Falls)
Haunted of Beauty, like the marvellous youth
Who sang Saint Agnes' Eve! How passing fair
Her shapes took color in thy homestead air!
How on thy canvas even her dreams were truth!
Magician! who from commonest elements
Called up divine ideals, clothed upon
By mystic lights soft blending into one
Womanly grace and child-like innocence.
Teacher I thy lesson was not given in vain.
Beauty is goodness; ugliness is sin;
Art's place is sacred: nothing foul therein
May crawl or tread with bestial feet profane.
If rightly choosing is the painter's test,
Thy choice, O master, ever was the best.
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Metre | 101101011 1111011101 011100111 11110100101 010111100 110101101 1101110011 11011100 101110111001 1011010011 1111010101 1111110101 1101010101 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 597 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 470 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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