Analysis of Poetry Everywhere
William Schwenck Gilbert 1836 – 1911
What time the poet hath hymned
The writhing maid, lithe-limbed,
Quivering on amaranthine asphodel,
How can he paint her woes,
Knowing, as well he knows,
That all can be set right with calomel?
When from the poet's plinth
The amorous colocynth
Yearns for the aloe, faint with rapturous thrills,
How can he hymn their throes
Knowing, as well he knows,
That they are only uncompounded pills?
Is it, and can it be,
Nature hath this decree,
Nothing poetic in the world shall dwell?
Or that in all her works
Something poetic lurks,
Even in colocynth and calomel?
Scheme | aabcCb ddecCe ffbggb |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011 010111 100111 111101 101111 11111111 110101 01001 1101111001 111111 101111 1111011 110111 101101 1001000111 110101 100101 100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 547 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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