Analysis of Question And Answer
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
'CAN the soul die, believe you?
Because it seems to me
My soul is dead and buried,
So still it seems to be.
'It quivers not with joy;
It moaneth not with pain;
There is no note in nature
Awakens it again.
'Those white clouds in the azure;
Those lanes; those breezy trees;
Those softly gliding swallows;
Those fluted melodies;
'Those shadows in the meadows,
Running a fitful race;
With pleasure once they thrilled me,
But coldly now I gaze.'
Fear not; oh! not so lightly
The soul of mortal dies;
It has but wept itself to sleep,
And all unconscious lies.
The surging feelings overwrought,
They have but ebbed away,
And left the soul a little while
With all their changeful spray.
But stronger, deeper, fuller, in
The billowy tide will roll,
And overflood, with life and love,
The ever living soul.
Scheme | XAXA XXBX BCDC DXAX AEXE XFXF XGXG |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (71%) |
Metre | 1011011 011111 1111010 111111 11111 11111 1111010 010101 1110010 111101 1101010 11100 11001 100101 1101111 110111 1111110 011101 11110111 01101 0101001 1111001 01010101 11111 11010100 01111 011101 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 778 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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