Analysis of Thorwaldsen
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)
Not in the fabled influence of some star,
Benign or evil, do our fortunes lie;
We are the arbiters of destiny,
Lords of the life we either make or mar.
We are our own impediment and bar
To noble endings. With distracted eye
We let the golden moment pass us by,
Time's foolish spendthrifts, searching wide and far
For what lies close at hand. To serve our turn
We ask fair wind and favorable tide.
From the dead Danish sculptor let us learn
To make Occasion, not to be denied:
Against the sheer precipitous mountain-side
Thorwaldsen carved his Lion at Lucerne.
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Metre | 10010100111 01110110101 1101001100 1101110111 11101010001 1101010101 1101010111 110110101 11111111101 1111010001 1011010111 1101011101 01010100101 11110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 567 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 444 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 18, 2023
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