Analysis of Invita Minerva
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)
Not of desire alone is music born,
Not till the Muse wills is our passion crowned;
Unsought she comes; if sought, but seldom found,
Repaying thus our longing with her scorn.
Hence is it poets often are forlorn,
In super-subtle chains of silence bound,
And mid the crowds that compass them around
Still dwell in isolation night and morn,
With knitted brow and cheek all passion-pale
Showing the baffled purpose of the mind.
Hence is it I, that find no prayers avail
To move my Lyric mistress to be kind,
Have stolen away into this leafy dale
Drawn by the flutings of the silvery wind.
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Metre | 11010011101 11011110101 111111101 01011010101 1111010101 0101011101 0101110101 110010101 1101011101 1001010101 1111111101 1111010111 11001011101 1101101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 591 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 464 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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