Analysis of Reaction
Ada Cambridge 1844 (St Germans, Norfolk) – 1926 (Melbourne)
Let us, dear friend, in mutual strength arise
Against our tyrant Custom, and demand
Free souls and bodies at our own command.
Let us defy the vulgar world's surprise,
Scorn brute convention and soft compromise,
And, bold in proud revolt, and hand in hand,
Cast in our lot and take our fearless stand
With the unsafe, improper, and unwise.
Let us abjure the comfortable creeds
Approved by prudent minds, and revel free
In foolish thoughts and inexpedient deeds; —
For thus alone can life for you and me
Out of this suffocating sloth revive,
And our small spark of good be kept alive.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CDCDEE |
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Poetic Form | Petrarchan sonnet |
Metre | 11110100101 01101010001 11010110101 1101010101 110100110 0101010101 101010110101 1001010001 111010001 0111010101 0101011 1101111101 111100101 01011111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 579 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 231 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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