Analysis of The Rail Road
Jones Very 1813 (Salem) – 1880
Thou great proclaimer to the outward eye
Of what the spirit too would seek to tell,
Onward thou go'st, appointed from on high
The other warnings of the Lord to swell;
Thou art the voice of one that through the world
Proclaims in startling tones, 'Prepare the way;'
The lofty mountain from its seat is hurled,
The flinty rocks thine onward march obey;
The valleys lifted from their lowly bed
O'ertop the hills that on them frowned before,
Thou passest where the living seldom tread,
Through forests dark, where tides beneath thee roar,
And bid'st man's dwelling from thy track remove,
And would with warning voice his crooked paths reprove.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Shakespearean sonnet (93%) |
Metre | 11110101 1101011111 10111010111 0101010111 1101111101 0101010101 0101011111 0101110101 0101011101 101111101 111010101 1101110111 01111011101 01110111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 634 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 511 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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