Analysis of Death And Birth
Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837 (London) – 1909 (London)
Death and birth should dwell not near together:
Wealth keeps house not, even for shame, with dearth:
Fate doth ill to link in one brief tether
Death and birth.
Harsh the yoke that binds them, strange the girth
Seems that girds them each with each: yet whether
Death be best, who knows, or life on earth?
Ill the rose-red and the sable feather
Blend in one crown's plume, as grief with mirth:
Ill met still are warm and wintry weather,
Death and birth.
| Scheme | abaB bab abaB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Roundel |
| Metre | 1011111010 1111101111 1111101110 101 101111101 1111111110 111111111 1011001010 101111111 1111101010 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 454 |
| Words | 85 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 09, 2023
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