Analysis of Gray
Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)
The loud, apt epithet, applying sure;
The dim-drawn image, artfully obscure;
The perfect stanza, framed of words as choice
And round as pearls, yet liquid to the voice;
A pith of phrase, and musical array
Of numbers;—these are the prime charms of Gray.
The naked majesty and open wonder
Of true sublimity heaped in lines of thunder;
That artless grace wherewith the olden time
Dandled the happy infancy of Rhyme;
That negligent melody which shames the trick
Of wire-drawn verse, and verse-drawn rhetoric:
These in our rich old Bards abound; but these
To Gray were literary heresies.
Scheme | AABBCC DDEEFFXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011100101 0111010001 0011011111 0111110101 0111010001 1101101111 01010001010 111101110 11110101 101010011 11001001101 11011011100 10101110111 1101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 579 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 8 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 233 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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