Analysis of Mourning
Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837 (London) – 1909 (London)
Alas my brother! the cry of the mourners of old
That cried on each other,
All crying aloud on the dead as the death-note rolled,
Alas my brother!
As flashes of dawn that mists from an east wind smother
With fold upon fold,
The past years gleam that linked us one with another.
Time sunders hearts as of brethren whose eyes behold
No more their mother:
But a cry sounds yet from the shrine whose fires wax cold,
Alas my brother!
| Scheme | abaB bab abaB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Roundel (79%) |
| Metre | 0111001101011 111110 1100110110111 01110 1101111111110 11011 011111111010 11111101101 11110 1011110111011 01110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 435 |
| Words | 83 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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