Analysis of Spiritual Laws
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)
The living Heaven thy prayers respect,
House at once and architect,
Quarrying man's rejected hours,
Builds therewith eternal towers;
Sole and self-commanded works,
Fears not undermining days,
Grows by decays,
And, by the famous might that lurks
In reaction and recoil,
Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil;
Forging, through swart arms of Offence,
The silver seat of Innocence.
Scheme | AABBCDDCEEBF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101101 111010 100101010 1101010 1010101 111001 1101 01010111 0010001 11110111 1011111 01011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 374 |
Words | 62 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 303 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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