Analysis of To Greville Matheson Macdonald.
First, most, to thee, my son, I give this book
In which a friend's and brother's verses blend
With mine; for not son only--brother, friend,
Art thou, through sonship which no veil can brook
Between the eyes that in each other look,
Or any shadow 'twixt the hearts that tend
Still nearer, with divine approach, to end
In love eternal that cannot be shook
When all the shakable shall cease to be.
With growing hope I greet the coming day
When from thy journey done I welcome thee
Who sharest in the names of all the three,
And take thee to the two, and humbly say,
Let this man be the fourth with us, I pray.
Casa Coraggio:
May, 1883.
Scheme | ABBAABBACDCCDD AD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111111 0101010101 1111110101 111111111 0101101101 110110111 1101010111 0101011011 11011111 1101110101 1111011101 110011101 0111010101 1111011111 101 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 621 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 2 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 244 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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