Analysis of Enigma
Edgar Allan Poe 1809 (Boston) – 1849 (Baltimore)
The noblest name in Allegory's page,
The hand that traced inexorable rage;
A pleasing moralist whose page refined,
Displays the deepest knowledge of the mind;
A tender poet of a foreign tongue,
(Indited in the language that he sung.)
A bard of brilliant but unlicensed page
At once the shame and glory of our age,
The prince of harmony and stirling sense,
The ancient dramatist of eminence,
The bard that paints imagination's powers,
And him whose song revives departed hours,
Once more an ancient tragic bard recall,
In boldness of design surpassing all.
These names when rightly read, a name [make] known
Which gathers all their glories in its own.
Scheme | AABBCCAADEFFGGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101011 011110001 0101001101 0101010101 0101010101 0100010111 0111010101 11010101101 0111000101 0101001100 0111110 01110101010 111101011 0101010101 1111010111 1101110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 658 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 522 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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