Analysis of Final Poem
Alice Duer Miller 1874 (New York) – 1942 (New York)
The consciousness of my mortality
Which used to blind and limit all my life
Weighs on me not since I have been your wife.
Death is the price of our felicity;
And life eternal would not leave us free
To love each other thus, setting above
The grace of God, a common human love,
Untouched, unthreatened by any heaven to be.
For who, while waiting to be crowned a king
Can relish all the humble every day?
Who but must hasten when she sets a goal?
For me, I could not make our life a thing
So wise, so real, so tender and so gay
Had I this other care - to save my soul.
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Metre | 0100110100 1111010111 1111111111 11011100100 0101011111 1111011001 0111010101 0111101011 1111011101 11010101001 1111011101 11111110101 1111110011 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 561 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 437 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 115 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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