Analysis of Specula
Thomas Edward Brown 1830 – 1897
When He appoints to meet thee, go thou forth—
It matters not
If south or north,
Bleak waste or sunny plot.
Nor think, if haply He thou seek’st be late,
He does thee wrong.
To stile or gate
Lean thou thy head, and long!
It may be that to spy thee He is mounting
Upon a tower,
Or in thy counting
Thou hast mista’en the hour.
But, if He comes not, neither do thou go
Till Vesper chime.
Belike thou then shalt know
He hath been with thee all the time.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGHGH |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
Metre | 1101111111 1101 1111 111101 111111111 1111 1111 111101 11111111110 01010 10110 111010 1111110111 1101 11111 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 508 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 340 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 91 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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