Analysis of To Two Bereaved
Katharine Tynan 1861 (Ireland) – 1931
Now in your days of worst distress,
The empty days that stretch before,
When all your sweet's turned bitterness;--
The Hand of the Lord is at your door.
And when at morn beside your bed
Grief waits to tell you it is true,
That both your darling boys are dead;
The Mercy of the Lord bends down to you.
When you are frozen and stripped bare
And over your joy is raised a stone,
The foot of the Lord is on your stair;
The Lord's mercy is never done.
More than the joys of common men,--
The gifts of the Lord are past desire--
They shall be given to you again,
They shall sit down beside your fire.
The young and laurelled heads shall shine,
Making a glory in your days
As a light burns in a secret shrine:
The Love of the Lord is passing praise.
The Lord recalls not gifts once given :
They shall sit down beside your hearth;
They shall come in, in white, new-shriven,
Make you new Heaven and a new earth.
The Will of the Lord is great and good,
The cup of your joy shall He brim o'er;
They shall come in with life renewed.
They shall go out from you no more.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDF GHGH IJIJ FXEX XHXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (57%) |
Metre | 10111101 01011101 11111100 011011111 01110111 11111111 11110111 0101011111 11110011 010111101 011011111 01101101 11011101 0110111010 111101101 111101110 0101111 10010011 101100101 011011101 01111110 11110111 11100111 111100011 011011101 0111111110 11101101 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,060 |
Words | 213 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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