Analysis of On Solitude
Lucretia Maria Davidson 1808 (Plattsburgh) – 1825 (Plattsburgh)
(Written in her fourteenth year.)
Sweet Solitude! I love thy silent shade,
I love to pause when in life's mad career;
To view the chequered path before me laid,
And turn to meditate — to hope, to fear.
'T is sweet to draw the curtain on the world,
To shut out all its tumult, all its care;
Leave the dread vortex, in which all are whirled,
And to thy shades of twilight calm repair.
Yet, Solitude, the hand divine, which made
The earth, the ocean, and the realms of air,
Pointed how far thy kingdom should extend,
And bade thee pause, for he had fixed thee there.
Then, when disgusted with the world and man,
When sick of pageantry, of pomp, and pride,
To thee I'll fly, in thee I'll seek relief,
And hope to find that calm the world denied.
Scheme | A BABA CDCD BDXD XEXE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1000111 110111101 1111101101 110110111 011101111 11111010101 1111110111 1011001111 011111101 110010111 0101000111 1011110101 0111111111 1101010101 1111001101 1111011101 0111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 751 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 06, 2023
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