Analysis of Service of all the Dead
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
Between the avenues of cypresses,
All in their scarlet cloaks, and surplices
Of linen, go the chaunting choristers,
The priests in gold and black, the villagers.
And all along the path to the cemetery
The round, dark heads of men crowd silently
And black-scarved faces of women-folk, wistfully
Watch at the banner of death, and the mystery.
And at the foot of a grave a father stands
With sunken head, and forgotten, folded hands;
And at the foot of a grave a woman kneels
With pale shut face, and neither hears not feels
The coming of the chaunting choristers
Between the avenues of cypresses,
The silence of the many villagers,
The candle-flames beside the surplices.
Scheme | Aaaa bbbb aaaa aAaa |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 0101011 10110101 1101011 0101010100 01010110100 0111111100 011101101100 110101100100 01011010101 11010010101 01011010101 1111010111 0101011 0101011 0101010100 01010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 677 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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