Analysis of Two Robbers
Francis William Bourdillon 1852 (Runcorn) – 1921
When Death from some fair face
Is stealing life away,
All weep, save she, the grace
That earth shall lose today.
When Time from some fair face
Steals beauty year by year,
For her slow-fading grace
Who sheds, save she, a tear?
And Death not often dares
To wake the world's distress;
While Time, the cunning, mars
Surely all loveliness.
Yet though by breath and breath
Fades all thy fairest prime,
Men shrink from cruel Death,
But honor crafty Time.
Scheme | ABAB AXAX XXXA CDCD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 111111 110101 111101 111101 111111 110111 101101 111101 011101 110101 110101 1011 111101 111101 111101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 440 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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