Analysis of To Helen
Edgar Allan Poe 1809 (Boston) – 1849 (Baltimore)
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, wayworn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece
And the grandeur that was Rome.
Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche
How statue-like I see thee stand,
The agate lamp within thy hand!
Ah, Psyche, from the regions which
Are Holy Land!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110111 111111 110100011 01011001 111101 11011111 11011101 1111111 1010111 0001111 10110101 1111111 01010111 11010101 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 580 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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