Analysis of The Passions that We Fought With
Trumbull Stickney 1874 (Geneva) – 1904
The passions that we fought with and subdued
Never quite die. In some maimed serpent's coil
They lurk, ready to spring and vindicate
That power was once our torture and our lord.
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101111001 1011011101 1110110100 1101110100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 183 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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