This is an analysis of To-Day by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
I rake no coffined clay, nor publish wide
The resurrection of departed pride.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXd ddeeaaddaa
- Stanza lengths: 8,10,
- Metre: 11110011101 0101000101 1011010111 11110011101 1001110111 1101010101 1101010101 01010110001 1101111111 0111011011 1111011101 1111111101 1101110101 1101001101 1111111111 0101000101 1011010101 0111110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
and, late
