Analysis of A Woman at Her Husband's Grave
Joseph Seamon Cotter 1861 (Louisville) – 1949
Peace to his ashes!
I cannot for the soul of me
Sorrowing bow,
Tho I search through the heart of me
Grieve for him now.
'Tis well he is gone
And heart-break is over,
A husband he was
But never a lover.
| Scheme | ABCBCDEFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (33%) |
| Metre | 11110 11010111 11 11110111 1111 11111 011110 01011 110010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 209 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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