Analysis of Inter Vias
'Tis a land where no hurricane falls,
But the infinite azure regards
Its waters for ever, its walls
Of granite, its limitless swards;
Where the fens to their innermost pool
With the chorus of May are aring,
And the glades are wind-winnowed and cool
With perpetual spring;
Where folded and half withdrawn
The delicate wind-flowers blow,
And the bloodroot kindles at dawn
Her spiritual taper of snow;
Where the limits are met and spanned
By a waste that no husbandman tills,
And the earth-old pine forests stand
In the hollows of hills.
'Tis the land that our babies behold,
Deep gazing when none are aware;
And the great-hearted seers of old
And the poets have known it, and there
Made halt by the well-heads of truth
On their difficult pilgrimage
From the rose-ruddy gardens of youth
To the summits of age.
Now too, as of old, it is sweet
With a presence remote and serene;
Still its byways are pressed by the feet
Of the mother immortal, its queen:
The huntress whose tresses, flung free,
And her fillets of gold, upon earth,
They only have honour to see
Who are dreamers from birth.
In her calm and her beauty supreme,
They have found her at dawn or at eve,
By the marge of some motionless stream,
Or where shadows rebuild or unweave
In a murmurous alley of pine,
Looking upward in silent surprise,
A figure, slow-moving, divine,
With inscrutable eyes.
Scheme | AXAABCBC DEDEFAFX GHGHIXIX JKJKLMLM NONOPQPQ |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (33%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10111101 101001001 11011011 11011001 10111101 10101111 00111101 101001 1100101 01001101 001111 010001011 10101101 1011111 00111101 001011 1011101001 11011101 00110111 001011101 11101111 11100100 101101011 101011 11111111 101001001 11111101 101001011 01011011 001011011 1101111 111011 001001001 111011111 101111001 1110111 0011011 101001001 01011001 101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,323 |
Words | 242 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 215 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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