Analysis of Live blindly



Live blindly and upon the hour. The Lord,
Who was the Future, died full long ago.
Knowledge which is the Past is folly. Go,
Poor child, and be not to thyself abhorred.
Around thine earth sun-winged winds do blow
And planets roll; a meteor draws his sword;
The rainbow breaks his seven-coloured chord
And the long strips of river-silver flow:
Awake! Give thyself to the lovely hours.
Drinking their lips, catch thou the dream in flight
About their fragile hairs' aerial gold.
Thou art divine, thou livest, -- as of old
Apollo springing naked to the light,
And all his island shivered into flowers.


Scheme ABBABAABCDEEDC
Poetic Form
Metre 11000101001 1101011101 1011011101 110111101 011111111 01010100111 011110101 0011110101 0111101010 1011110101 0111011001 110111111 0101010101 01110100110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 604
Words 106
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 468
Words per stanza (avg) 104
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Trumbull Stickney

Joseph Trumbull Stickney was an American classical scholar and poet. more…

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