Analysis of Mockery
Leon Gellert 1892 (Australia) – 1977
I met my love a-weeping,
Weeping in the night-tide pale;
Her head among the lily bloom,
Weeping by an empty tomb—
An unshut tomb.
I gently stroked her golden hair
That shone so
With the moon-glow
In the sad-sweet air.
Like playful breezes from the south
Came soft smile-dimples to her mouth;
And when again she seemed to weep
I kissed her wild-wide eyes to sleep;
While there beyond the lily bloom
I saw the watching, waiting tomb.
I left my love a-sleeping,
Sleeping in the cypress vale;
Smiling sadly in the gloom;
Sleeping in the fastened tomb—
The tight-shut tomb.
How round the tomb the moving mists
Will twirl so
When the wind blows,
That the ivy twists
And shudders round the cold grey stone:
A serpent on a crumbling throne.
While I, upon a nearby mound
Hear salt tears soaking in the ground;
But there, when’er the lilies bloom,
I hear low laughter in the tomb.
Scheme | ABCCCDEEDFFGGCC ABCCCHEXHIIJJCC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) Etheree (23%) |
Metre | 1111010 1000111 01010101 1011101 111 11010101 111 1011 00111 11010101 11110101 01011111 11011111 11010101 11010101 1111010 1000101 1010001 1000101 0111 11010101 111 1011 10101 01010111 010101001 11010111 11110001 1110101 11110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 855 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 15, 15 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 341 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 79 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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