Analysis of Memorials On The Slain At Chickamauga
Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
Happy are they and charmed in life
Who through long wars arrive unscarred
At peace. To such the wreath be given,
If they unfalteringly have striven -
In honor, as in limb, unmarred.
Let cheerful praise be rife,
And let them live their years at ease,
Musing on brothers who victorious died -
Loved mates whose memory shall ever please.
And yet mischance is honorable too -
Seeming defeat in conflict justified
Whose end to closing eyes is hid from view.
The will, that never can relent -
The aim, survivor of the bafflement,
Make this memorial due.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110101 1111011 111101110 111110 0101011 110111 01111111 10110101001 1111001101 011110001 100101010 1111011111 01110101 01010101 1101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 541 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 6 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 217 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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