Analysis of A Poet’s Thought
Barry Cornwall 1787 (Leeds, Yorkshire) – 1874 (London)
TELL me, what is a poet’s thought?
Is it on the sudden born?
Is it from the starlight caught?
Is it by the tempest taught,
Or by whispering morn?
Was it cradled in the brain?
Chain’d awhile, or nurs’d in night?
Was it wrought with toil and pain?
Did it bloom and fade again,
Ere it burst to light?
No more question of its birth:
Rather love its better part!
’T is a thing of sky and earth,
Gathering all its golden worth
From the Poet’s heart.
| Scheme | ABXAB CDCXD EFEEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110101 1110101 111011 1110101 111001 111001 1011101 1111101 1110101 11111 1110111 1011101 11011101 10011101 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 483 |
| Words | 89 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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