Analysis of The Spirit's Depths
Coventry Patmore 1823 (Woodford, London) – 1896 (Lymington)
Not in the crisis of events
Of compass'd hopes, or fears fulfill'd,
Or acts of gravest consequence,
Are life's delight and depth reveal'd.
The day of days was not the day;
That went before, or was postponed;
The night Death took our lamp away
Was not the night on which we groan'd.
I drew my bride, beneath the moon,
Across my threshold; happy hour!
But, ah, the walk that afternoon
We saw the water-flags in flower!
Scheme | ABCDEFEFGHGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010101 1111101 11110100 11010101 01111101 11011101 011110101 11011111 11110101 01111010 1101101 110101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 413 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 320 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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