Analysis of A Request
Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)
When I am dead
I would that ye make my bed
On that low-lying, windy waste by the sea,
Where the silvery grasses rustle and lisp;
There, where the crisp
Foam-flakes shall fly over me,
And murmurs creep
From the ancient heart of the deep,
Lulling me ever, I shall most sweetly sleep.
While the eerie sea-folk croon
On the long dim shore by the light of a waning moon.
I shall not hear
Clamor of young life anear,
Voices of gladness to stir an unrest;
Only the wandering mists of the sea
Shall companion me;
Only the wind in its quest
Shall come where I lie,
Or the rain from the brooding sky
With furtive footstep shall pass me by,
And never a dream of the earth
Shall break on my slumber with lure of an out-lived mirth.
Scheme | AABCCBDDDEE FFGBBGHHHII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 1111111 11110101101 10100101001 1101 1111101 0101 10101101 10110111101 1010111 1011110110101 1111 101111 101111101 1001001101 10101 1001011 11111 10110101 11011111 01001101 1111101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 707 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 11 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 281 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 70 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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