Analysis of Loss And Gain
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)
Virtue runs before the muse
And defies her skill,
She is rapt, and doth refuse
To wait a painter's will.
Star-adoring, occupied,
Virtue cannot bend her,
Just to please a poet's pride,
To parade her splendor.
The bard must be with good intent
No more his, but hers,
Throw away his pen and paint,
Kneel with worshippers.
Then, perchance, a sunny ray
From the heaven of fire,
His lost tools may over-pay,
And better his desire.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD XEXE FDFD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1010101 00101 1110101 110101 101010 101010 1110101 101010 01111101 11110 1011101 11100 1010101 1010110 1111101 0101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 417 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 04, 2023
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