Analysis of At Magnolia Cemetery
Henry Timrod 1828 (Charleston) – 1867 (Columbia)
SLEEP sweetly in your humble graves,
Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;
Though yet no marble column craves
The pilgrim here to pause.
In seeds of laurel in the earth
The blossom of your fame is blown,
And somewhere, waiting for its birth,
The shaft is in the stone!
Meanwhile, behalf the tardy years
Which keep in trust your storied tombs,
Behold! your sisters bring their tears,
And these memorial blooms.
Small tributes! but your shades will smile
More proudly on these wreaths to-day,
Than when some cannon-moulded pile
Shall overlook this bay.
Stoop, angels, hither from the skies!
There is no holier spot of ground
Than where defeated valor lies,
By mourning beauty crowned.
Scheme | AXAX BCBC XDXD EFEF GHGH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (35%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11001101 11010101 11110101 010111 01110001 01011111 0110111 011001 1010101 11011101 01110111 0101001 11011111 11011111 1111011 11011 11010101 111100111 11010101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 670 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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