Analysis of Unity
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)
Space is ample, east and west,
But two cannot go abreast,
Cannot travel in it two:
Yonder masterful cuckoo
Crowds every egg out of the nest,
Quick or dead, except its own;
A spell is laid on sod and stone,
Night and day were tampered with,
Every quality and pith
Surcharged and sultry with a power
That works its will on age and hour.
Scheme | AABBACCDEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101 1110101 1010011 101001 110011101 1110111 01111101 1010101 10010001 10101010 111111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 332 |
Words | 66 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 261 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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