Analysis of Patience Taught By Nature
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 (Kelloe) – 1861 (Florence)
'O DREARY life,' we cry, ' O dreary life ! '
And still the generations of the birds
Sing through our sighing, and the flocks and herds
Serenely live while we are keeping strife
With Heaven's true purpose in us, as a knife
Against which we may struggle ! Ocean girds
Unslackened the dry land, savannah-swards
Unweary sweep, hills watch unworn, and rife
Meek leaves drop year]y from the forest-trees
To show, above, the unwasted stars that pass
In their old glory: O thou God of old,
Grant me some smaller grace than comes to these !--
But so much patience as a blade of grass
Grows by, contented through the heat and cold.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111101 010010101 11101000101 01001111101 11011001101 0111110101 10110101 1111101 111110101 110101111 0111011111 1111011111 1111010111 1101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 616 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 483 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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