Analysis of Buried To-Day
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1826 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire) – 1887 (Shortlands, London)
February 23, 1858.
BURIED to-day.
When the soft green buds are bursting out,
And up on the south wind comes a shout
Of village boys and girls at play
In the mild spring evening gray.
Taken away
Sturdy of heart and stout of limb,
From eyes that drew half their light from him,
And put low, low, underneath the clay,
In his spring--on this spring day.
Passes away
All the pride of boy-life begun,
All the hope of life yet to run;
Who dares to question when One saith 'Nay.'
Murmur not--only pray.
Enters to-day
Another body in churchyard sod,
Another soul on the life in God.
HIS Christ was buried--and lives alway:
Trust Him, and go your way.
Scheme | X ABBAA ACCAA ADDAA AEEXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100 1011 101111101 011011101 11010111 0011101 1001 10110111 111111111 01110101 0111111 1001 10111101 10111111 111101111 101101 1011 01010011 010110101 11110011 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 648 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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