Analysis of Microcosmography
John Le Gay Brereton 1871 (Sydney) – 1933
He looks beyond the veils of night and day;
He hearkens in the silence, and has heard
The ancient woods by dryad singing stirred,
To mortal ears how thin and far away.
With what gross laughter yet he turns to play
With slaves of vice and virtue and the herd
Of flopping little Calibans, that gird
At muddy boots and call them feet of clay.
Here you may loaf the valley or breast the hill,
Dive deep for pearl or sink your shaft for gold,
Or watch Love, laughing, flit in the summer nights.
Sit by the mud and sniff it as you will,
If you but lift your eyes an inch, behold
The moving tide and broken glimmer of lights.
Scheme | ABBAABBACDECDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011101 1100010011 010111101 1101110101 1111011111 1111010001 11010111 1101011111 11110101101 1111111111 11110100101 1101011111 1111111101 01010101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 613 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 484 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 121 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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