Analysis of Children Of Light
Robert Lowell 1917 (Boston) – 1977 (New York City)
Our fathers wrung their bread from stocks and stones
And fenced their gardens with the Redmen's bones;
Embarking from the Nether Land of Holland,
Pilgrims unhouseled by Geneva's night,
They planted here the Serpent's seeds of light;
And here the pivoting searchlights probe to shock
The riotous glass houses built on rock,
And candles gutter by an empty altar,
And light is where the landless blood of Cain
Is burning, burning the unburied grain.
Scheme | AABCCDDEFF |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 10101111101 011101011 01010101110 101111 1101010111 0101001111 0100110111 01010111010 0111010111 11010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 437 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 362 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on May 02, 2023
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