Analysis of The Dead Master
John McCrae 1872 (Guelph) – 1918 (Boulogne-sur-Mer)
Amid earth's vagrant noises, he caught the note sublime:
To-day around him surges from the silences of Time
A flood of nobler music, like a river deep and broad,
Fit song for heroes gathered in the banquet-hall of God.
| Scheme | AABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111010110101 11011101010011 01110101010101 11110100010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 223 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 172 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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