Analysis of Opusculum
John Henry Newman 1801 (London) – 1890 (Edgbaston)
Fair Cousin, thy page
is small to encage
the thoughts which engage
the mind of a sage,
such as I am;
'Twere in teaspoon to take
the whole Genevese lake,
or a lap-dog to make
the white Elephant sac-
-red in Siam.
Yet inadequate though
to the terms strange and so-
-lemn that figure in po-
-lysyllabical row
in a treatise;
Still, true words and plain,
of the heart, not the brain,
in affectionate strain,
this book to contain
very meet is.
So I promise to be
a good Cousin to thee,
and to keep safe the se-
-cret I heard, although e-
-v'ry one know it;
With a lyrical air
my kind thoughts I would dare,
and offer whate'er
beseems the news, were
I a poet.
Scheme | AAAAB CCCXB DDDDX EEEEX FFXFX GGHHX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (23%) Etheree (23%) |
Metre | 11011 1111 01101 01101 1111 10111 0111 101111 011001 1001 101001 101101 111001 11 0010 11101 101101 001001 11101 1011 111011 011011 011101 11111 1111 101001 111111 01010 1010 1010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 660 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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