Analysis of The Far Surpassing
The mountains offer towering peaked grandeur.
The sunset blends its range of colored fire.
The desert spreads its many-flowered floor.
The sea yields its varied exotic blurs.
We climb the peaks for grander, awesome view
and try the hues of earth’s broad far-flung scenes.
We wonder at such tide-worn birthing, too,
of surf-pound sands and foaming blues and greens.
A man, to woman, is a tempered sight
when in his strength and youthful, perfect frame,
and man adores the woman’s gracious might
and fascinated with her given name.
All heights and depths of all the race of man
surpass in beauty sky and sea and land.
Scheme | XXXX ABAB CDCD XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010100101 0111111010 0101110101 0111100101 1101110101 0101111111 1101111101 1111010101 0111010101 1011010011 010101101 010010101 1101110111 0101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 606 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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