Analysis of La Vierge Au Donateur
Edith Wharton 1862 (New York City) – 1937 (Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt)
Here by the ample river’s argent sweep,
Bosomed in tilth and vintage to her walls,
A tower-crowned Cybele in armoured sleep
The city lies, fat plenty in her halls,
With calm parochial spires that hold in fee
The friendly gables clustered at their base,
And, equipoised o’er tower and market-place,
The Gothic minister’s winged immensity;
And in that narrow burgh, with equal mood,
Two placid hearts, to all life’s good resigned,
Might, from the altar to the lych-gate, find
Long years of peace and dreamless plenitude.
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Metre | 1101010101 101010101 01011011 0101110001 11010011101 0101010111 011100101 01010011 0011011101 1101111101 1101010111 1111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 523 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 411 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 86 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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