Analysis of In Egypt.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
Speak softly, wake her not! We all must die.
This is a sleep that wraps her in secure
From Caesar's luck. Yet is that veiny bosom
Warm where now love's despair wrought life's undoing,
Or it may be life's parting, love's renewing,
So all's not over yet. See you, and how
She sleeps in his esteem, and he in hers,
Conjoined in Song's immortal monument;
While Caesar triumphs on through Syria,
And these two lie in Egypt — so together,
And, through the working of a worm, for ever.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011111 1101110001 1101111110 11110111010 11111101010 1111011101 1101010100 101010100 1101011100 01110101010 01010101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 478 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 365 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 89 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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