Analysis of To a Millionaire
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
The world in gloom and splendour passes by,
And thou in the midst of it with brows that gleam,
A creature of that old distorted dream
That makes the sound of life an evil cry.
Good men perform just deeds, and brave men die,
And win not honour such as gold can give,
While the vain multitudes plod on, and live,
And serve the curse that pins them down: But I
Think only of the unnumbered broken hearts,
The hunger and the mortal strife for bread,
Old age and youth alike mistaught, misfed,
By want and rags and homelessness made vile,
The griefs and hates, and all the meaner parts
That balance thy one grim misgotten pile.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101101 01001111111 0101110101 1101111101 1101110111 011111111 101101101 0101111111 110101101 0100010111 11010111 1101010011 0101010101 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 656 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 490 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 30, 2023
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