Analysis of Whittier
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
NOT o'er thy dust let there be spent
The gush of maudlin sentiment;
Such drift as that is not for thee,
Whose life and deeds and songs agree,
Sublime in their simplicity.
Nor shall the sorrowing tear be shed.
O singer sweet, thou art not dead!
In spite of time's malignant chill,
With living fire thy songs shall thrill,
And men shall say, 'He liveth still!'
Great poets never die, for Earth
Doth count their lives of too great worth
To lose them from her treasured store;
So shalt thou live for evermore —
Though far thy form from mortal ken —
Deep in the hearts and minds of men.
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Metre | 110111111 01110100 11111111 11010101 01010100 1101111 11011111 01110101 110101111 0111111 11010111 11111111 11110101 1111110 11111101 10010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 579 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 452 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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