Analysis of Poetry

Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)



RISING and setting suns of Liberty—
Mountainous exploits and the wrecks thick strewn
By stormy Passion o’er Life’s treacherous sea,
Relieved with shores of green delight, and boon
And starry dreams and the serene pale moon
Of Pathos,—these with all of which they be
Idealisms, are of Poesy
The bodily temple into fitness hewn,
And for its Soul, all that the mind can seize
Of beauty harmonising with the might
Of natural ties and social sympathies
And that deep spirit of Piety whose flight
Is strongest and most heavenward ’mid the blight
Of mortal misery—its Soul are these.


Scheme ABABBACBCDCDDC
Poetic Form
Metre 1001011100 100100111 11010111001 0111110101 0101000111 1101111111 1111 01001001101 0111110111 1101101 11001010100 01110110011 110011101 1101001111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 583
Words 101
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 466
Words per stanza (avg) 98
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Charles Harpur

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