Analysis of Heredity
John Liddell Kelly 1850 – 1925
More than a fleshly immortality
Is mine. Though I myself return again
To dust, my qualities of heart and brain,
Of soul and spirit, shall not cease to be.
I view them growing, day by day, in thee,
My first-begotten son; I trace them plain
In you, my daughters; and I count it gain
Myself renewed and multiplied to see.
But sadness mingles with my selfish joy,
At thought of what you may be called to bear.
Oh, passionate maid! Oh, glad, impulsive boy!
Your father's sad experience you must share --
Self-torture, the unfeeling world's annoy,
Gross pleasure, fierce exultance, grim despair!
Scheme | AXBAABBA CDCDCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010100 111110101 1111001101 1101011111 1111011101 1101011111 0111001111 10101011 1101011101 1111111111 11001110101 11010100111 1100010101 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 618 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 229 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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