Analysis of To Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Le Gallienne 1866 (Liverpool) – 1947
Poet, whose words are like the tight-packed seed
Sealed in the capsule of a silver flower,
Still at your art we wonder as we read,
The art dynamic charging each word with power.
Seeds of the silver flower of Emerson:
One, on the winds to Scotland brought, did sink
In Carlyle's heart; and one was lately blown
To Belgium, and flowered in-Maeterlinck.
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1011110111 10010101010 1111110111 010101011110 11010101100 1101110111 0011011101 11001001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 351 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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