Analysis of Earth's Immortalities
Robert Browning 1812 (Camberwell) – 1889 (Venice)
See, as the prettiest graves will do in time,
Our poet's wants the freshness of its prime;
Spite of the sexton's browsing horse, the sods
Have struggled through its binding osier rods;
Headstone and half-sunk footstone lean awry,
Wanting the brick-work promised by-and-by;
How the minute grey lichens, plate o'er plate,
Have softened down the crisp-cut name and date!
So, the year's done with
(_Love me for ever!_)
All March begun with,
April's endeavour;
May-wreaths that bound me
June needs must sever;
Now snows fall round me,
Quenching June's fever---
(_Love me for ever!_)
Scheme | aabbccdd eCefgfgfC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010011101 10101010111 110110101 110111011 10111101 1001110101 10101101101 1101011101 10111 1111 11011 10010 11111 11110 11111 10110 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 591 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 9 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 224 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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