Analysis of Last Words
Amy Levy 1861 (London) – 1889 (London)
Dead! all's done with!
-- R. Browning.
These blossoms that I bring,
This song that here I sing,
These tears that now I shed,
I give unto the dead.
There is no more to be done,
Nothing beneath the sun,
All the long ages through,
Nothing--by me for you.
The tale is told to the end;
This, ev'n, I may not know--
If we were friend and friend,
If we were foe and foe.
All's done with utterly,
All's done with. Death to me
Was ever Death indeed;
To me no kindly creed
Consolatory was given.
You were of earth, not Heaven. . .
This dreary day, things seem
Vain shadows in a dream,
Or some strange, pictured show;
And mine own tears that flow,
My hidden tears that fall,
The vainest of them all.
Scheme | XA AABB CCDD EFEF GGHH CCII FFJJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 110 110111 111111 111111 111001 1111111 100101 101101 101111 0111101 1111111 110101 110101 111100 111111 110101 111101 1110 1011110 110111 11001 111101 011111 110111 01111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 671 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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