Analysis of Perennials.
Samuel Griswold Goodrich 1793 ( Ridgefield) – 1860 ( )
Life is a journey, and its fairest flowers
Lie in our path beneath pride's trampling feet;
Oh, let us stoop to virtue's humble bowers,
And gather those, which, faded, still are sweet.
These way-side blossoms amulets are of price;
They lead to pleasure, yet from dangers warn;
Turn toil to bliss, this earth to Paradise,
And sunset death to heaven's eternal morn.
A good deed done hath memory's blest perfume,
A day of self-forgetfulness, all given
To holy charity, hath perennial bloom
That goes, undrooping, up from earth to heaven.
Forgiveness, too, will flourish in the skies
Justice, transplanted thither, yields fair fruit;
And if repentance, borne to heaven, dies,
'Tis that no tears are there to wet its root.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010011010 10101011101 1111111010 0101110111 11110100111 1111011101 111111110 0111100101 011111101 01111110 110100101001 111111110 0101110001 100101111 0101011101 1111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 710 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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