Analysis of Death.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
The natural death we each night undergo
Should teach us that our passing's but a sleep,
Which we beyond the body's shadow may,
Even as a garment of the day we doff,
Put off for ever, being then no more
Nor less, indeed, than we have been before.
Scheme | ABCDEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100111101 1111101101 110101011 10101010111 1111010111 1101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 248 |
Words | 50 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 189 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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