Analysis of Unto one who lies at rest
Helen Hunt Jackson 1830 (Amherst, Massachusetts) – 1885 (San Francisco)
Unto one who lies at rest
'Neath the sunset, in the West,
Clover-blossoms on her breast.
Lover of each gracious thing
Which makes glad the summer-tide,
From the daisies clustering
And the violets purple-eyed,
To those shy and hidden blooms
Which in forest coverts stay,
Sending wandering perfumes
Out as guide to show the way,
All she knew, to all was kind;
None so humble or so small
That she did not seek and find
Silent friendship from them all.
Moss-cups, tiarella leaves,
Dappld like the adder's skin,
Fungus huts with ivory eaves
Which the fairies harbor in,
Regiments of fronded ferns,
Golden-rod and asters frail,
Every flaming leaf that burns
Red against the autumn pale,
Every pink-cupped wayside rose,--
All to her were dear and known;
But above them all she chose
Clover-blossoms for her own.
So they laid her to her rest
In the sun-warmed, bounteous West,
Clover-blossoms on her breast.
Scheme | aaA bcbcdedefgfghihijkjklmlm aaA |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (33%) |
Metre | 1011111 101001 1010101 1011101 1110101 1010100 00100101 1110101 101011 1010001 1111101 1111111 1110111 1111101 1010111 1111 11011 10111001 1010100 100111 1010101 10010111 1010101 1001111 1100101 1011111 1010101 1110101 001111 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 907 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 24, 3 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 237 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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