Analysis of Una
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)
Roving, roving, as it seems,
Una lights my clouded dreams;
Still for journeys she is dressed;
We wander far by east and west.
In the homestead, homely thought;
At my work I ramble not;
If from home chance draw me wide,
Half-seen Una sits beside.
In my house and garden-plot,
Though beloved, I miss her not;
But one I seek in foreign places,
One face explore in foreign faces.
At home a deeper thought may light
The inward sky with chrysolite,
And I greet from far the ray,
Aurora of a dearer day.
But if upon the seas I sail,
Or trundle on the glowing rail,
I am but a thought of hers,
Loveliest of travellers.
So the gentle poet's name
To foreign parts is blown by fame;
Seek him in his native town,
He is hidden and unknown.
Scheme | AABB XCDD CCEE XBFF GGHH IIXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 1010111 1011101 1110111 11011101 001101 1111101 1111111 1110101 0110101 1011101 111101010 110101010 11010111 010111 0111101 01010101 11010111 11010101 1110110 11100 1010101 11011111 1101101 1110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 711 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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