Analysis of Solitude
Where the mocking lyre-bird calls
To its mate among the falls
Of the mountain streams that play,
Each adown its tortuous way;
When the dewy-fingered even
Veils the narrowed glimpse of heaven,
Where the morning re-illumes
Gullies full of ferny plumes,
And the roof of radiance weaves
Through high-hanging vault of leaves;
There ’mid giant turpentines,
Groups of climbing, clustering vines,
Rocks that stand like sentinels
Guarding native citadels,
Lowly flowering shrubs that grace
With their beauty all the place,
There I love to wander lonely
With my dog companion only;
There, indulge unworldly moods
In the mountain solitudes;
Far from all the gilded strife
Of our boasted “social life,”
Contemplating, spirit-free,
The majestic company,
Grandly marching through the ages—
Heroes, martyrs, bards, and sages—
They who bravely suffered long,
By their struggles waxing strong,
For the freedom of the mind,
For the rights of humankind.
Oh, for some awakening cause,
Where we face eternal laws,
Where we dare not turn aside,
Where the souls of men are tried—
Something of a nobler strife,
Which consumes the dross of life,
To unite to truer aim,
To exalt to loftier fame,
Leave behind the bats and balls,
Leave the racers in the stalls,
Leave the cards for ever shuffled,
Leave the yacht on seas unruffled,
Leave the haunts of pampered ease,
Leave your dull festivities—
Better far the savage glen,
Fitter school for earnest men.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111 1110101 1010111 1111001 10101010 10101110 101011 101111 00111001 1110111 11101 11101001 1111100 10101 10100111 1110101 11111010 11101010 10111 00101 1110101 11010101 100101 0010100 10101010 10101010 1110101 1110101 1010101 101110 11101001 1110101 1111101 1011111 1010101 1010111 111101 10111001 1010101 1010001 10111010 10111010 1011101 1110100 1010101 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,404 |
Words | 237 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 46 |
Lines Amount | 46 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,143 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 234 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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