Analysis of The Life of Earth
Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894
The life of earth, how full of pain,
Which greets us on our day of birth,
Nor leaves us while we yet retain
The life of earth.
There is a shadow on our mirth,
Our sun is blotted out with rain,
And all our joys are little worth.
Yet oh, when life begins to wane,
And we must sail the doubtful firth,
How wild the longing to regain
The life of earth!
| Scheme | abaB bab abaB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Roundel |
| Metre | 01111111 111110111 11111101 0111 11011101 101110111 011011101 11110111 01110101 11010101 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 346 |
| Words | 74 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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