Analysis of Time
Jones Very 1813 (Salem) – 1880
There is no moment but whose flight doth bring
Bright clouds and fluttering leaves to deck my bower;
And I within like some sweet bird must sing
To tell the story of the passing hour;
For time has secrets that no bird has sung,
Nor changing leaf with changing season told;
They wait the utterance of some nobler tongue
Like that which spoke in prophet tones of old;
Then day and night, and month and year shall tell
The tale that speaks but faint from bird and bough;
In spirit-songs their praise shall upward swell
Nor longer pass heaven's gate unheard as now,
But cause e'en angels' ears to catch the strain,
And send it back to earth in joy again.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011111 110100111110 0101111111 11010101010 1111011111 1101110101 11010011101 1111010111 1101010111 0111111101 0101111101 11011010111 11111011101 0111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 645 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 516 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 121 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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