Analysis of Epilogue
Robert Browning 1812 (Camberwell) – 1889 (Venice)
At the midnight in the silence of the sleep-time,
When you set your fancies free,
Will they pass to where--by death, fools think, imprisoned--
Low he lies who once so loved you, whom you loved so,
--Pity me?
Oh to love so, be so loved, yet so mistaken!
What had I on earth to do
With the slothful, with the mawkish, the unmanly?
Like the aimless, helpless, hopeless, did I drivel
--Being--who?
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,
Never doubted clouds would break,
Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better,
Sleep to wake.
No, at noonday in the bustle of man's work-time
Greet the unseen with a cheer!
Bid him forward, breast and back as either should be,
"Strive and thrive!" cry "Speed,--fight on, fare ever
There as here!"
Scheme | ABXXB XCDDC XEXFE AXBFX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10100101011 1111101 111111111010 111111111111 101 111111111010 1111111 101101001 101010101110 101 111011111110 1010111 101110101110 111111101110 111 11100101111 1001101 111010111011 1011111110 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 806 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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