Analysis of Here on Earth



Here on Earth - not in high clouds-
On this mother earth that is close:
To sorrow in her sadness, exult in her meager joy
That knows, so well, how to console.

Not nebulous tomorrow but today: solid, warm, mighty,
Today materialized in the hand:
Of this single, short day to drink deep
Here in our own land.

Before night falls - come, oh come all!
A unified stubborn effort, awake
With a thousand arms. Is it impossible to roll
The stone from the mouth of the well?


Scheme XXXA XBXB XXAX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (33%)
Metre 1111011 11101111 11000100100101 11111110 11000110110110 010100001 111011111 101011 01111111 010101001 1010111010011 01101101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 461
Words 90
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 119
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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