Analysis of Twenty-One
John Le Gay Brereton 1871 (Sydney) – 1933
The world, all busy round us here of late,
Is still unchanged: but you are twenty-one.
The mind, victorious with the rising sun,
Steps boldly and blithely through the imagined gate
On greener grass where brighter flowers await
The quickened senses and the waters run
With livelier music, and a web is spun
Of loveliest pattern on the loom of fate.
Doubt nothing, fare right on with manly trust,
And know, whatever failures be in store,
Though all your light seem shimmering blinding haze,
And flowers and grass fly up in choking dust,
Better than you can fancy waits before
For those who find the secret of the maze.
Scheme | ABBAABBACDECDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111011111 1101111101 01010010101 110010100101 11011101001 0101000101 11001000111 111010111 1101111101 011010101 11111100101 01001110101 1011110101 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 492 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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