Analysis of Brook Farm
Louise Imogen Guiney 1861 (Roxbury) – 1920
Down the long road, bent and brown,
Youth, that dearly loves a vision,
Ventures to the gate Elysian,
As a pilgrim from the town.
Coming not so late, so far,
Rocks and birches! for your story;
Not to prate on vanished glory
Where of old was quenched a star;
Where of old, in lapse of toil,
Time but mocked a prayer pathetic;
Where the flower of good prophetic
Starved in our New England soil.
Ah! to Youth with radiant eyes,
For whom grief is not, nor daunting,
Lost glad voices still are chanting
‘Neath those unremaining skies,
Still the dreams of fellowship
Beat their wings of aspiration;
And a smile of soft elation
Trembles from its haughty lip
If another dare deride
Hopes heroic snapped and parted,
Disillusion so high-hearted
All success is mean beside.
Scheme | ABAA CDDC EFFE GHHG IBBI JKKJ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1011101 11101010 101011 1010101 1011111 1011110 11111010 1111101 1110111 11101010 101011010 10101101 11111001 11111110 11101110 1111 101110 1111010 00111010 111101 1010101 10101010 0101110 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 770 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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