Analysis of Remembrance
John Greenleaf Whittier 1807 (Haverhill) – 1892 (Hampton Falls)
WITH COPIES OF THE AUTHOR'S WRITINGS.
Friend of mine! whose lot was cast
With me in the distant past;
Where, like shadows flitting fast,
Fact and fancy, thought and theme,
Word and work, begin to seem
Like a half-remembered dream!
Touched by change have all things been,
Yet I think of thee as when
We had speech of lip and pen.
For the calm thy kindness lent
To a path of discontent,
Rough with trial and dissent;
Gentle words where such were few,
Softening blame where blame was true,
Praising where small praise was due;
For a waking dream made good,
For an ideal understood,
For thy Christian womanhood;
For thy marvellous gift to cull
From our common life and dull
Whatsoe'er is beautiful;
Thoughts and fancies, Hybla's bees
Dropping sweetness; true heart's-ease
Of congenial sympathies;--
Still for these I own my debt;
Memory, with her eyelids wet,
Fain would thank thee even yet!
And as one who scatters flowers
Where the Queen of May's sweet hours
Sits, o'ertwined with blossomed bowers,
In superfluous zeal bestowing
Gifts where gifts are overflowing,
So I pay the debt I'm owing.
To thy full thoughts, gay or sad,
Sunny-hued or sober clad,
Something of my own I add;
Well assured that thou wilt take
Even the offering which I make
Kindly for the giver's sake.
Scheme | X AAA BBB XCC DDD EEE FFF GGG HHH III JJJ KKK LLL MMM |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (38%) |
Metre | 110101010 1111111 1100101 111101 1010101 1010111 1010101 1111111 1111111 1111101 1011101 1011001 1110001 1011101 10011111 1011111 1010111 110101 111010 111111 11010101 11100 101011 1010111 1010100 1111111 1001011 1111101 0111110 10111110 1111010 0101010 1111100 11101110 1111111 1011101 1011111 1011111 100100111 101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,239 |
Words | 225 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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