Analysis of Tact
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)
What boots it, thy virtue,
What profit thy parts,
While one thing thou lackest,
The art of all arts!
The only credentials,
Passport to success,
Opens castle and parlor,—
Address, man, Address.
The maiden in danger
Was saved by the swain,
His stout arm restored her
To Broadway again:
The maid would reward him,—
Gay company come,—
They laugh, she laughs with them,
He is moonstruck and dumb.
This clenches the bargain,
Sails out of the bay,
Gets the vote in the Senate,
Spite of Webster and Clay;
Has for genius no mercy,
For speeches no heed,—
It lurks in the eyebeam,
It leaps to its deed.
Church, tavern, and market,
Bed and board it will sway;
It has no to-morrow,
It ends with to-day.
Scheme | ABABXCDC DXDX EFXF XGHG XIEI HGXG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110 11011 11111 01111 010010 1101 1010010 111 010010 11101 111010 1101 011011 11001 111111 11101 110010 11101 1010010 111001 1110110 11011 11001 11111 110010 101111 111110 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 678 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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