Analysis of To a Friend
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
With a Volume of Verses.
TO you who dwell withdrawn, above
The world's tumultuous strife,
And, in an atmosphere of love,
Have triumphed over life;
To you whose heart has kept so young
Beneath the weight of years,
I give these passion flowers of song,
Still wet with undried tears.
You too have trod that stony path
Which steeply winds afar,
And seen, through nights of storm and wrath,
The bright and Morning Star;
Where, shining o'er the Alps of time
On valleys full of mist,
It beckons us to peaks sublime,
Oh, brave Idealist.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010110 11110101 011001 0011011 110101 11111111 010111 111101011 11111 11111101 110101 01111101 010101 110100111 110111 11011101 11010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 535 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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