Analysis of Influence
Ada Cambridge 1844 (St Germans, Norfolk) – 1926 (Melbourne)
As in the deeps of embryonic night,
Out of unfathomable obscurities
Of Nature's womb, the little life-germs rise,
Pushing and pulsing upward to the light;
As, when the first day dawns on waking sight,
They leap to liberty and recognize
The golden sunshine and the morning skies
Their home and goal and heritage and right -
So do our brooding thoughts and deep desires
Grow in our souls, we know not how or why;
Grope for we know not what, all blind and dumb.
So, when the time is ripe, and one aspires
To free his thought in speech, ours hear the cry,
And to full birth and instant knowledge come.
Scheme | ABBAABBA BCDBCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100110101 11010001 1101010111 1001010101 1101111101 111100010 010100101 1101010001 111010101010 10101111111 1111111101 11011101010 11110110101 0111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 235 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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