Analysis of Dirge For The Year
I.
Orphan Hours, the Year is dead,
Come and sigh, come and weep!
Merry Hours, smile instead,
For the Year is but asleep.
See, it smiles as it is sleeping,
Mocking your untimely weeping.
II.
As an earthquake rocks a corse
In its coffin in the clay,
So White Winter, that rough nurse,
Rocks the death-cold Year to-day;
Solemn Hours! wail aloud
For your mother in her shroud.
III.
As the wild air stirs and sways
The tree-swung cradle of a child,
So the breath of these rude days
Rocks the Year:—be calm and mild,
Trembling Hours, she will arise
With new love within her eyes.
IV.
January gray is here,
Like a sexton by her grave;
February bears the bier,
March with grief doth howl and rave,
And April weeps--but, O ye Hours!
Follow with May's fairest flowers.
Scheme | ABCBCDD AXEXEFF AGHGHII JKJKJLL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 10100111 101101 1010101 1011101 11111110 10101010 1 111101 0110001 1110111 1011111 1010101 1110001 1 1011101 01110101 1011111 1011101 100101101 1110101 1 100111 1010101 100101 1111101 010111110 10111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 745 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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