Analysis of The Glory
Edward Thomas 1878 (London Borough of Lambeth) – 1917 (Pas-de-Calais)
The glory of the beauty of the morning, -
The cuckoo crying over the untouched dew;
The blackbird that has found it, and the dove
That tempts me on to something sweeter than love;
White clouds ranged even and fair as new-mown hay;
The heat, the stir, the sublime vacancy
Of sky and meadow and forest and my own heart: -
The glory invites me, yet it leaves me scorning
All I can ever do, all I can be,
Beside the lovely of motion, shape, and hue,
The happiness I fancy fit to dwell
In beauty's presence. Shall I now this day
Begin to seek as far as heaven, as hell,
Wisdom or strength to match this beauty, start
And tread the pale dust pitted with small dark drops,
In hope to find whatever it is I seek,
Hearkening to short-lived happy-seeming things
That we know naught of, in the hazel copse?
Or must I be content with discontent
As larks and swallows are perhaps with wings?
And shall I ask at the day's end once more
What beauty is, and what I can have meant
By happiness? And shall I let all go,
Glad, weary, or both? Or shall I perhaps know
That I was happy oft and oft before,
Awhile forgetting how I am fast pent,
How dreary-swift, with naught to travel to,
Is Time? I cannot bite the day to the core.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010101010 0110100011 0101111001 11111101011 11110011111 0101001100 11010100111 01001111111 1111011111 01010110101 0100110111 011011111 01111111011 1011111101 01011101111 0111101111 111110101 1111100101 1111101001 1101010111 0111101111 1101011111 1100011111 11011111011 1111010101 0101011111 1101111101 11110101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,205 |
Words | 237 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 933 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 235 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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