Analysis of Immortality
Matthew Arnold 1822 (Laleham) – 1888 (Liverpool)
Foil'd by our fellow-men, depress'd, outworn,
We leave the brutal world to take its way,
And, Patience! in another life, we say
The world shall be thrust down, and we up-borne.
And will not, then, the immortal armies scorn
The world's poor, routed leavings? or will they,
Who fail'd under the heat of this life's day,
Support the fervours of the heavenly morn?
No, no! the energy of life may be
Kept on after the grave, but not begun;
And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife,
From strength to strength advancing--only he,
His soul well-knit, and all his battles won,
Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101011 1101011111 0100010111 0111110111 01110010101 0111010111 1110011111 0101101001 1101001111 1110011101 0111100101 1111010101 1111011101 1011010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 608 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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