Analysis of The Dying Of Pere Pierre

John McCrae 1872 (Guelph) – 1918 (Boulogne-sur-Mer)



". . . with two other priests; the same night he died,
     and was buried by the shores of the lake that bears his name."
                                                       Chronicle.

"Nay, grieve not that ye can no honour give
 To these poor bones that presently must be
But carrion; since I have sought to live
 Upon God's earth, as He hath guided me,
I shall not lack!  Where would ye have me lie?
 High heaven is higher than cathedral nave:
Do men paint chancels fairer than the sky?"
 Beside the darkened lake they made his grave,
Below the altar of the hills; and night
 Swung incense clouds of mist in creeping lines
That twisted through the tree-trunks, where the light
 Groped through the arches of the silent pines:
And he, beside the lonely path he trod,
Lay, tombed in splendour, in the House of God.


Scheme XXX XAXABCBCDEDEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 1110101111 01101011011111 100 111111111 1111110011 1100111111 0111111101 1111111111 11011010101 111110101 0101011111 0101010101 1011110101 1101011101 1101010101 0101010111 110100111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 809
Words 143
Sentences 10
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 14
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 290
Words per stanza (avg) 71
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 23, 2023

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John McCrae

Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae, MD was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I, and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. more…

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