Analysis of The Hereafter
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
Hereafter! O we need not waste
Our smiles or tears, whatever befall:
No happiness but holds a taste
Of something sweeter, after all;--
No depth of agony but feels
Some fragment of abiding trust,--
Whatever death unlocks or seals,
The mute beyond is just.
| Scheme | ABABCDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
| Metre | 01011111 101111001 11001101 11010101 11110011 11010101 101111 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 255 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 199 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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