Analysis of Suffering
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
Oh ye, all ye, who suffer here below,
Schooled in the baffling mystery of pain,
Who on life's anvil bear the fateful strain,
Wrong as forged iron, hammered blow on blow.
Take counsel with your grief, in that you know,
That he who suffers suffers not in vain,
Nay, that it shall be for the whole world's gain,
And wisdom prove the priceless price of woe.
Thus in some new-found land where no man's feet
Have trod a path, bold voyagers astray,
May fall foredone by torturing thirst and heat:
But from the impotent body of defeat--
The winners spring who carve a conquering way--
Measured by milestones of their perished clay.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CDCCDD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110101 10010010011 1111010101 1111010111 1101110111 1111010101 1111110111 0101010111 1011111111 1101110001 1111100101 11010010101 01011101001 101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 631 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 4 |
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) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 07, 2023
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