Analysis of To E. C. S.
John Greenleaf Whittier 1807 (Haverhill) – 1892 (Hampton Falls)
Poet and friend of poets, if thy glass
Detects no flower in winter's tuft of grass,
Let this slight token of the debt I owe
Outlive for thee December's frozen day,
And, like the arbutus budding under snow,
Take bloom and fragrance from some morn of May
When he who gives it shall have gone the way
Where faith shall see and reverent trust shall know.
| Scheme | AABCBCCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001110111 01110010111 1111010111 111010101 010110101 1101011111 1111111101 11110100111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 351 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 277 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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