Analysis of Noli Aemulari
Arthur Hugh Clough 1819 (Liverpool) – 1861 (Florence)
In controversial foul impureness
The peace that is thy light to thee
Quench not: in faith and inner sureness
Possess thy soul and let it be.
No violence--perverse--persistent--
What cannot be can bring to be;
No zeal what is make more existent,
And strife but blinds the eyes that see.
What though in blood their souls embruing,
The great, the good and wise they curse,
Still sinning, what they know not doing;
Stand still, forbear, nor make it worse.
By curses, by denunciation,
The coming fate they cannot stay;
Nor thou, by fiery indignation,
Though just, accelerate the day.
Scheme | ABAB CBCA DADA EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 001011 01111111 11010101 01110111 110001010 11011111 111111010 01110111 1101111 01010111 110111110 1111111 11010010 01011101 111100010 1101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 583 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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