Analysis of Threnody
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)
Upon your hearse this flower I lay
Brief be your sleep! You shall be known
When lesser men have had their day:
Fame blossoms where true seed is sown,
Or soon or late, let Time wound what it may.
Unvext by any dream of fame,
You smiled, and bade the world pass by:
But I--I turned, and saw a name
Shaping itself against the sky--
White star that rose amid the battle's flame!
Brief be your sleep, for I would see
Your laurels--ah, how trivial now
To him must earthly laurel be
Who wears the amaranth on his brow!
How vain the voices of mortality!
Scheme | ABABA CDCDC EFEFE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 011111011 11111111 11011111 11011111 1111111111 1110111 11010111 11110101 10010101 1111010101 11111111 110111001 11110101 11010111 1101010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 557 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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