Analysis of Lines Written On The Pillar Erecting To The Memory Of Mr. Barlow
Helen Maria Williams 1761 (London) – 1827
Minister of the United States at Paris, WHO DIED AT NAROWITCH IN POLAND, ON HIS RETURN
FROM WILNA, DEC. 26, 1812.
WHERE o'er the Polish desert's trackless way
Relentless Winter rules with savage sway,-
Where the shrill Polar winds, as wild they blow,
Seem to repeat some plaint of mortal woe,-
Far o'er the cheerless waste, the traveller's eye
Shall this recording pillar long descry,
And give the sod a tear where BARLOW lies-
He who was simply great and nobly wise.
Here, led by patriot zeal, he met his doom,
And found, amid the frozen wastes, a tomb;
Far from his native soil the patriot fell,
Far from that Western World he sung so well!
Nor she, so long belov'd! nor she was nigh,
To catch the dying look, the parting sigh!
She who, the hopeless anguish to beguile,
In fond memorial rears the fun'ral pile!
Whose widow'd bosom on Columbia's shore
Shall mourn the moments that return no more;
While, bending o'er the broad Atlantic wave,
Sad fancy hovers on the distant grave.
Scheme | XX AABBCDEEFF GGCCHHDDII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010010111011110101101 111 110010111 0101011101 1011011111 1101111101 110011011 110101011 010101111 1111010101 11110011111 0101010101 11110101001 1111011111 1111011111 1101010101 1101010101 0101001011 11010101001 1101010111 11010010101 1101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 972 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 254 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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