Analysis of Music
Alice Cary 1820 (Mount Healthy) – 1871
There is music, deep and solemn
Floating through the vaulted arch
When, in many an angry column,
Clouds take up their stormy march:
O’er the ocean billows, heaping
Mountains on the sloping sands,
There are ever wildly sweeping
Shapeless and invisible hands.
Echoes full of truth and feeling
From the olden bards sublime,
Are, like spirits, brightly stealing
Through the broken walls of time.
The universe, that glorious palace,
Thrills and trembles as they float,
Like the little blossom’s chalice
With the humming of the mote.
On the air, as birds in meadows—
Sweet embodiments of song—
Leave their bright fantastic shadows
Trailing goldenly along.
Till, aside our armor laying,
We like prisoners depart,
In the soul is music playing
To the beating of the heart.
Scheme | ABABCDCD CECEXFXF GHGHCICI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101010 1010101 101011010 1111101 10101010 1010101 11101010 10001001 10111010 1010101 11101010 1010111 010110010 101111 10101010 1010101 1011101 1111 1110101 10101 101101010 1110001 00111010 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 811 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 204 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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