Analysis of Sililoquy On Death
James Shirley 1596 (London) – 1666 (London)
I have not lived
After the rate to fear another world.
We come from nothing into life, a time
We measure with a short breath, and that often
Made tedious, too, with our own cares that fill it;
Which, like so many atoms in a sunbeam,
But crowd and jostle one another. All,
From the adored purple to the haircloth,
Must centre in a shade; and they that have
Their virtues to wait on them, bravely mock
The rugged storms that so much fright them here,
When their soul's launch'd by death into a sea
That's ever calm.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 1001110101 1111001101 11010110110 1100111011111 1111010001 1101010101 100110101 1100010111 1101111101 0101111111 1111110101 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 511 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 398 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 98 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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