Analysis of Sic Transit
Muriel Stuart 1885 – 1967
'What did she leave?' . . .
Only these hungry miser-words, poor heart!
Not 'Did she love?' 'Did she suffer?' 'Was she sad
From this green, bright and tossing world to part?'
No word of 'Do they miss her? do they grieve?'
Only this wolf-thought for the gold she had . . .
'What did she leave?'
Scheme | AbcbacA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 1011010111 11111110111 1111010111 1111110111 1011110111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 294 |
Words | 59 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 7 |
Lines Amount | 7 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 206 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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