Analysis of Now and then
Charles Bertram Johnson 1880 (Callao, Missouri) – 1958 (Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri)
“All life is built from song”
In youth’s young morn I sang;
And from a top-near hill
The echo broke and rang.
The years with pinions swift
To youth’s high noon made flight,
“All life is built from song”
I sang amid the fight.
To life’s sun-setting years,
My feet have come—Alas!
And through its hopes and fears
Again I shall not pass.
The lusty song my youth
With high-heart ardor sang
Is but a tinkling sound—
A cymbal’s empty clang.
And now I sing, my Dear,
With wisdom’s wiser heart,
“All life is built from love,
And song is but a part.”
Scheme | Abxb xcAc dede xbxb xfxf |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111111 011111 010111 010101 01111 111111 111111 110101 111101 111101 011101 011111 010111 111101 1101001 010101 011111 11101 111111 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 578 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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