Analysis of The Eternal
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
Your dear desired grace,
Your hands, your lips of red,
The wonder of your perfect face
Will fade, like sweet rose-petals shed,
When you are dead.
Your beautiful hair
Dust in the dust will lie -
But not the light I worship there,
The gold the sunshine crowns you by -
This will not die.
Your beautiful eyes
Will be closed up with clay;
But all the magic they comprise,
The hopes, the dreams, the ecstasies
Pass not away.
All I desire and see
Will be a carrion thing;
But all that you have been to me
Is, and can never cease to be.
O Grave! where is thy victory?
Where, Death, thy sting?
Scheme | ABABB CDCDD EFEAF GHGGGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 111111 01011011 11111101 1111 11001 100111 11011101 0101111 1111 11001 111111 11010101 010101 1101 1101001 1101001 11111111 10110111 11111100 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 573 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 6 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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