Analysis of Elegiac Stanzas On The Death Of Sir Peter Parker, Bart.
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
There is a tear for all that die,
A mourner o'er the humblest grave;
But nations swell the funeral cry,
And Triumph weeps above the brave.
For them is Sorrow's purest sigh
O'er Ocean's heaving bosom sent:
In vain their bones unburied lie,
All earth becomes their monument!
A tomb is theirs on every page,
An epitaph on every tongue:
The present hours, the future age,
For them bewail, to them belong.
For them the voice of festal mirth
Grows hush'd, their name the only sound;
While deep Remembrance pours to Worth
The goblet's tributary round.
A theme to crowds that knew them not,
Lamented by admiring foes,
Who would not share their glorious lot?
Who would not die the death they chose?
And, gallant Parker! thus enshrined
Thy life, thy fall, thy fame shall be;
And early valour, glowing, find
A model in thy memory.
But there are breasts that bleed with thee
In woe, that glory cannot quell;
And shuddering hear of victory
Where one so dear, so dauntless, fell.
Where shall they turn to mourn thee less?
When cease to hear thy cherish'd name?
Time cannot teach forgetfulness
While Grief's full heart is fed by Fame.
Alas! for them, though not for thee,
They cannot choose but weep the more;
Deep for the dead the grief must be,
Who ne'er gave cause to mourn before.
Scheme | ABAB AXAX CXCX DEDE FGFG HIHI IJIJ XKGK ILIL |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (78%) |
Metre | 11011111 0101001001 110101001 01010101 1111101 101010101 011111 11011100 011111001 11011001 010100101 1111101 1101111 11110101 11010111 011001 01111111 01010101 111111001 11110111 01010101 11111111 0101101 01001100 11111111 01110101 010011100 1111111 11111111 11111101 11011 11111111 01111111 11011101 11010111 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,260 |
Words | 232 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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