Analysis of Appreciation
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)
TO the sea-shell’s spiral round
’T is your heart that brings the sound:
The soft sea-murmurs that you hear
Within, are captured from your ear.
You do poets and their song
A grievous wrong,
If your own soul does not bring
To their high imagining
As much beauty as they sing.
| Scheme | AABB CCDDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011101 11111101 01110111 01110111 1110011 0101 1111111 1110100 1110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 278 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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