Analysis of Love and Death
Francis William Lauderdale Adams 1862 – 1893
Death? is it death you give? So be it! O Death,
thou hast been long my friend, and now thy pale
cool cheek shall have my kiss, while the faint breath
expires on thy still lips, O lovely Death!
Come then, loose hands, fair Life, without a wail!
We've had good hours together, and you were sweet
what time love whispered with the nightingale,
tho' ever your music by the lark's would fail.
Come then, loose hands! Our lover time is done.
Now is the marriage with the eternal sun.
The hours are few that rest, are few and fleet.
Good-bye! The game is lost: the game is won.
Scheme | ABAA BCBB DDCD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11111111111 1111110111 1111111011 01011111101 1111110101 111100100101 1111010100 11011010111 11111010111 11010100101 01011111101 1101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 587 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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