Analysis of Collins
Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)
A Genius caged in niceties of art;
A full-souled Bard that should have thought apart,
Creatively peculiar—not as taught
By models which (though rare and richly wrought,
As polished jewels set in chastened gold)
Have lost at length their birth-fire, and are cold.
Yet how shot through with beauty are the Lays
His nice hand fashioned for the after days!
Painting and Sculpture in his verse combine
With Poesy; and breathing through each line
In harmonised transfusion, they dispense
The spirit of a triune excellence.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101010011 0111111101 0100010111 1101110101 1101010101 11111110011 1111110101 1111010101 1001001110 11010111 01010101 010101100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 515 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 209 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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