Analysis of The Graduate Leaving College
George Moses Horton 1779 (North Carolina) – 1883
What summons do I hear?
The morning peal, departure's knell;
My eyes let fall a friendly tear,
And bid this place farewell.
Attending servants come,
The carriage wheels like thunders roar,
To bear the pensive seniors home,
Here to be seen no more.
Pass one more transient night,
The morning sweeps the college clean;
The graduate takes his last long flight,
No more in college seen.
The bee, which courts the flower,
Must with some pain itself employ,
And then fly, at the day's last hour,
Home to its hive with joy.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB CDCD EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 110111 010111 11110101 01111 010101 01011101 11010101 111111 111101 01010101 010011111 110101 0111010 11110101 011101110 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 524 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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