Analysis of Genius
Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)
A hundred generations have gone into its making,
With all their love and tenderness, with all their dreams and tears;
Their vanished joy and pleasure, their pain and their heart-breaking,
Have colored this rare blossom of the long-unfruitful years.
Their victory and their laughter for this have strong men given,
For this have sweet, dead women paid in patience which survives
That a great soul might bring the world, as from the gate of heaven,
All that was rich and beautiful in those forgotten lives.
Scheme | AXAX BXBX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100101101110 11110100111101 11010101101110 110111010111 110001101111110 11111101010101 101111011101110 11110100010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 508 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 51 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 204 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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