Analysis of Nirvana
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
Divest thyself, O Soul, of vain desire!
Bid hope farewell, dismiss all coward fears;
Take leave of empty laughter, emptier tears,
And quench, for ever quench, the wasting fire
Wherein this heart, as in a funeral pyre,
Aye burns, yet is consumed not. Years on years
Moaning with memories in thy maddened ears--
Let at thy word, like refluent waves, retire.
Enter thy soul's vast realm as Sovereign Lord,
And, like that angel with the flaming sword,
Wave off life's clinging hands. Then chains will fall
From the poor slave of self's hard tyranny--
And Thou, a ripple rounded by the sea,
In rapture lost be lapped within the All.
Scheme | ABXAABBX CCDEED |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111111010 111011101 11110101001 01110101010 011110010010 1111011111 1011000111 111111101 1011111101 0111010101 1111011111 1011111100 0101010101 0101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 635 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 244 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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