Analysis of Peter Cooper
Joaquin Miller 1837 (Indiana) – 1913 (Oakland)
Give honor and love for evermore
To this great man gone to rest;
Peace on the dim Plutonian shore,
Rest in the land of the blest.
I reckon him greater than any man
That ever drew sword in war;
I reckon him nobler than king or khan,
Braver and better by far.
And wisest he in this whole wide land
Of hoarding till bent and gray;
For all you can hold in your cold dead hand
Is what you have given away.
So whether to wander the stars or to rest
Forever hushed and dumb,
He gave with a zest and he gave his best
Give him the best to come.
Scheme | ABAB XAXX CDCD BEBE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11001110 1111111 110101001 1001101 1101101101 1101101 1101101111 1001011 010101111 1101101 1111101111 11111001 11011001111 010101 1110101111 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 529 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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