Analysis of Birth And Death.
I who have known thee, Birth, must know Death too:
As old, old men their children's children fold
In their gaunt arms, and though their blood be cold
Feel their own youth burn in them as they view
The features that were theirs — each sign so true
To their own breath and blood, 'tis as retold
Their very youth was, when they are so old,
By those who nothing of their childhood knew.
So even Death but a new birth may be,
And in some other star beyond to-day,
When we have put the use of Earth away,
E'en like those old men's children's children we
May see ourselves rise from our own decay,
The very offspring of our verity.
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Metre | 1111111111 1111110101 0111011111 1111101111 0101011111 111101111 1101111111 111101111 1101101111 0011010111 1111011101 11111110101 110011110101 0101110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 621 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 483 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 121 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 09, 2023
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