Analysis of Repose
Theodore Harding Rand 1835 – 1900
A mossy footfall in this wood
A peal of thunder were,
Or autumn tempest-shriek, compared
With the unwhispered stir
Of massy fluids lift in air,
To build these leafy pillars fair.
Lavished at wordless wish or mute
Command, the chemic wealth
Upsprings to meet the builders' hands,
All hushed as dusky stealth.
Noiseless as love, as silent prayer
Mysterious, the builders are.
Ah, sure, these silences are works
Of God's sabbatic rest,
A music perfect as the calm
Of wave's unbroken crest!
These woven leaves that stilly nod,
These violets, ope their eyes on God.
The deep serene that worketh here
Works, too, 'mid human tears;
A thousand years as one day is,
One day a thousand years.
Fell death still thunders at his task,
But death the peace of God doth mask.
Scheme | XAXABB XCXCBX XDXDEE XXXXFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011011 011100 11010101 1011 1110101 11110101 10110111 01011 1110101 11111 1111101 01000101 11110011 1111 01001101 110101 1101111 110011111 0101111 111101 01011111 110101 11110111 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 952 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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