Analysis of In a Lecture Room
Arthur Hugh Clough 1819 (Liverpool) – 1861 (Florence)
Away, haunt thou me not,
Thou vain Philosophy!
Little hast thou bestead,
Save to perplex the head,
And leave the spirit dead.
Unto thy broken cisterns wherefore go,
While from the secret treasure-depths below,
Fed by the skyey shower,
And clouds that sink and rest on hilltops high,
Wisdom at once, and Power,
Are welling, bubbling forth, unseen, incessantly?
Why labor at the dull mechanic oar,
When the fresh breeze is blowing,
And the strong current flowing,
Right onward to the Eternal Shore?
Scheme | ABACCDDEFEBGHHG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 011111 110100 10111 110101 010101 101101011 1101010101 110110 011101111 1011010 1101001010100 1101010101 1011110 0011010 110100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 504 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 393 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 83 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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