Analysis of The Revelation
Coventry Patmore 1823 (Woodford, London) – 1896 (Lymington)
An idle poet, here and there,
Looks around him; but, for all the rest,
The world, unfathomably fair,
Is duller than a witling's jest.
Love wakes men, once a lifetime each;
They lift their heavy lids, and look;
And, lo, what one sweet page can teach,
They read with joy, then shut the book.
And some give thanks, and some blaspheme
And most forget; but, either way,
That and the Child's unheeded dream
Is all the light of all their day.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEF |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
Metre | 11010101 101111101 0111 1101011 1111011 11110101 01111111 11111101 0111011 01011101 10010101 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 432 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 331 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 81 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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