Analysis of To A. L. Gordon
Francis William Lauderdale Adams 1862 – 1893
In night-long days, in aeons
where all Time's nights are one;
where life and death sing paeans
as of Greeks and Galileans,
never begun or done;
where fate, the slow swooping condor,
comes glooming all the sky --
as you have pondered I ponder,
as you have wandered I wander,
as you have died, shall I die?
Scheme | ABAAB CDCCD |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 011101 111111 1101110 11101 100111 11011010 11101 11110110 11110110 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 324 |
Words | 59 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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