Analysis of Earth’s Moments Of Gloom
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon 1832 – 1879
“The heart knoweth its own bitterness”
The heart hath its moments of hopeless gloom,
As rayless as is the dark night of the tomb;
When the past has no spell, the future no ray,
To chase the sad cloud from the spirit away;
When earth, though in all her rich beauty arrayed,
Hath a gloom o’er her flowers—o’er her skies a dark shade,
And we turn from all pleasure with loathing away,
Too downcast, too spirit sick, even to pray!
Oh! where may the heart seek, in moments like this,
A whisper of hope, or a faint gleam of bliss?
When friendship seems naught but a cold, cheerless flame,
And love a still falser and emptier name;
When honors and wealth are a wearisome chain,
Each link interwoven with grief and with pain,
And each solace or joy that the spirit might crave
Is barren of comfort and dark as the grave.
Lift—lift up thy sinking heart, pilgrim of life!
A sure spell there is for thy spirit’s sad strife;
’Tis not to be found in the well-springs of earth,—
Oh! no, ’tis of higher and holier birth.
Scheme | X AABBCCBB DDEEFFGG HHII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111100 0111101101 1111011101 10111101011 11011101001 11101011001 1011010101011 011111011001 1111011011 11101101011 01011101111 1101110111 0101101001 11001101001 1101011011 011011101011 11011001101 11111011011 01111111011 11111001111 11111001001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,016 |
Words | 191 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 194 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 20, 2023
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