Analysis of Dedication
Stephen Vincent Benet 1898 (Bethlehem) – 1943 (New York City)
To W. R. B.
And so, to you, who always were
Perseus, D'Artagnan, Lancelot
To me, I give these weedy rhymes
In memory of earlier times.
Now all those careless days are not.
Of all my heroes, you endure.
Words are such silly things! too rough,
Too smooth, they boil up or congeal,
And neither of us likes emotion --
But I can't measure my devotion!
And you know how I really feel --
And we're together. There, enough . . .
Scheme | X XABBAX CDEEDC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110011 0111110 100110 11111101 010011001 11110111 11110101 11110111 11111101 010111010 111101010 01111101 01010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 428 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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