Analysis of Rubies
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)
They brought me rubies from the mine,
And held them to the sun;
I said, they are drops of frozen wine
From Eden's vats that run.
I looked again,--I thought them hearts
Of friends to friends unknown;
Tides that should warm each neighboring life
Are locked in sparkling stone.
But fire to thaw that ruddy snow,
To break enchanted ice,
And give love's scarlet tides to flow,--
When shall that sun arise?
Scheme | ABAB XCXC DXDX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11110101 011101 111111101 11111 11011111 111101 111111001 110101 110111101 110101 01110111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 408 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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