Analysis of Sancta Maria
Edgar Allan Poe 1809 (Boston) – 1849 (Baltimore)
Sancta Maria! turn thine eyes -
Upon the sinner's sacrifice,
Of fervent prayer and humble love,
From thy holy throne above.
At morn - at noon - at twilight dim -
Maria! thou hast heard my hymn!
In joy and wo - in good and ill -
Mother of God, be with me still!
When the Hours flew brightly by,
And not a cloud obscured the sky,
My soul, lest it should truant be,
Thy grace did guide to thine and thee;
Now, when storms of Fate o'ercast
Darkly my Present and my Past,
Let my Future radiant shine
With sweet hopes of thee and thine!
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Metre | 1010111 010110 11010101 1110101 1111111 01011111 01010101 10111111 10101101 01010101 11111101 11111101 111111 10110011 11101001 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 526 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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