Analysis of Emblems
Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)
A STREAMLET is a bright and beauteous creature
In some wide desert, where it keeps apart
Of each wayfarer’s heart:
The Star of Evening is a gracious feature,
Instinct as ’twere with all the love that eyes
Have looked through at the skies.
And hence one emblems in its beauteous being
The memory of a Joy that in my heart
Flowed gratefully apart;
The other, to my spiritual seeing,
The perpetuity of Love’s white grace
Yet in some heavenly place.
| Scheme | ABBACC DBBDEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011010110 0111011101 1111 01110101010 1011110111 111101 0111001110 01001011011 110001 01011100010 001001111 1011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 448 |
| Words | 82 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 178 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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