Analysis of Noli Me Tangere
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
We watched the dawn breaking across the sea
While just above us hung the evening star.
The nearer waters took a hint of white
And clouds and waves together massed afar,
Narrowed our morning world of pallid light
Till dawn seemed very close to you and me.
'Nay, dawn, stay farther off. Be Magdalen.
Go back into the distance whence you came.
The Near is meaningless when Far is nought,'
So I; and you. 'Wait but a little then,
And day, whole day, uprising like a flame,
Will show us the far reaches of our thought.'
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Metre | 1101100101 1101110101 0101010111 0101010101 10101011101 1111011101 1111011100 1101010111 0111001111 1101110101 0111010101 11101101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 522 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 399 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 27, 2023
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