Man, A Torch
George Moses Horton 1779 (North Carolina) – 1883
Blown up with painful care and hard to light,
A glimmering torch blown in a moment out,
Suspended by a web, an angler's bait,
Floating at stake along the stream of chance,
Snatch'd from its hook by the fish of poverty,
A silent cavern is his last abode;
The king's repository veil'd with gloom,
The umbrage of a thousand oziers bowed,
The couch of hallowed bones, the grave's asylum,
The brave's retreat and end of ev'ry care.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJ |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 452 |
Words | 79 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
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