Analysis of To Solitude
Alice Cary 1820 (Mount Healthy) – 1871
I am weary of the working,
Weary of the long day’s heat;
To thy comfortable bosom,
Wilt thou take me, spirit sweet?
Weary of the long, blind struggle
For a pathway bright and high,—
Weary of the dimly dying
Hopes that never quite all die.
Weary searching a bad cipher
For a good that must be meant;
Discontent with being weary,—
Weary with my discontent.
I am weary of the trusting
Where my trusts but torments prove;
Wilt thou keep faith with me? wilt thou
Be my true and tender love?
I am weary drifting, driving
Like a helmless bark at sea;
Kindly, comfortable spirit,
Wilt thou give thyself to me?
Give thy birds to sing me sonnets?
Give thy winds my cheeks to kiss?
And thy mossy rocks to stand for
The memorials of our bliss?
I in reverence will hold thee,
Never vexed with jealous ills,
Though thy wild and wimpling waters
Wind about a thousand hills.
Scheme | ABXB XCAC XDED AXXX AEXE XFXF EGXG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (86%) |
Metre | 11101010 1010111 11100010 1111101 10101110 101101 10101010 1110111 10100110 1011111 00111010 1011001 11101010 111111 11111111 1110101 11101010 101111 10100010 111111 11111110 1111111 0111111 001001101 10100111 1011101 1110110 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 878 |
Words | 161 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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