Analysis of You Say, Columbus with His Argosies
Trumbull Stickney 1874 (Geneva) – 1904
You say, Columbus with his argosies
Who rash and greedy took the screaming main
And vanished out before the hurricane
Into the sunset after merchandise,
Then under western palms with simple eyes
Trafficked and robbed and triumphed home again:
You say this is the glory of the brain
And human life no other use than this?
I then do answering say to you: The line
Of wizards and of saviours, keeping trust
In that which made them pensive and divine,
Passes before us like a cloud of dust.
What were they? Actors, ill and mad with wine,
And all their language babble and disgust.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 1101010101 010101010 01011010 1101011101 101010101 1111010101 0101110111 11110011101 110011101 0111110001 1001110111 1011010111 0111010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 577 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 461 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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