Analysis of Other Verses
Arthur Henry Adams 1872 (Lawrence) – 1936 (Sydney, New South Wales)
Myself—My Song.
HERE, aloof, I take my stand—
Alien, iconoclast—
Poet of a newer land,
Confident, aggressive, lonely,
Product of the present only,
Thinking nothing of the past.
If some word of mine abide,
Yet no immortality
Looks my soul for; satisfied,
Though my voice be evanescent,
If it sing the pregnant present
And the birth that is to be.
All the beauty that has been,
All of wisdom's overplus,
Has been given me to glean;
In Earth's story clear one page is—
This—the widest of the ages—
Virile, vast, tumultuous.
I shall croon no love-song old,
Dream no memory of wrong,
Build no mighty epic bold;
From my forge I send them flying—
Fragments glowing once and dying—
Scattered sparks of molten song.
If I bring no gospel bright,
Still my little stream of song
Quavers thinly through the night,
Burdened with a broken yearning,
Still persistent, though discerning
Life has shadows, sorrow, wrong.
So my life shall be my verse.
Here's my record, stand or fall I
Failure may be mine, or worse,
In the twilight land of living—
With no doubt and no misgiving,
Here's my life-blood, breath and all!
Scheme | ABCBDDCEDEFFDXGXGGGHAHIIA JAJIIAGXGIIX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 1011111 10010 1010101 10001010 10101010 1010101 1111101 110100 111110 1111010 11101010 0011111 1010111 1111 1110111 01101111 10101010 101100 1111111 1110011 1110101 11111110 10101010 1011101 1111101 1110111 1010101 10101010 10101010 111101 1111111 11011111 1011111 0011110 11101010 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,173 |
Words | 195 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 25, 12 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 427 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 97 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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