Analysis of Culture
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)
Can rules or tutors educate
The semigod whom we await?
He must be musical,
Tremulous, impressional,
Alive to gentle influence
Of landscape and of sky,
And tender to the spirit-touch
Of man's or maiden's eye:
But, to his native centre fast,
Shall into Future fuse the Past,
And the world's flowing fates in his own mould recast.
| Scheme | AABBCDEDFFF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111010 011101 111100 1001 01110100 11011 01010101 11111 11110101 10110101 001101011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 325 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 257 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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