Analysis of Mors Dei.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
Methought I saw God dying, and
The millions round His bed;
And all in every planet knew
They'd pass when He was dead.
In a wan light He lay somewhere,
Where all was strange and dim,
And one by one each living thing
Felt the life leaving Him.
The fiercest creatures lost their power,
The brightest eyes grew pale;
A weakness spread through every star
Like a funereal tale.
Through Heaven and Hell a tremor passed;
The fiends and seraphim
Had hushed their cries and songs, and came
To share their doom with Him.
And o'er the Eyes that looked on all
A deathly glamour passed,
And He knew all that He had made
Was one with Him at last;
As with His final breath a boom
Crashed through the worlds, and He
Let go the awful stress He'd kept
On Life's immensity.
Scheme | ABCBDEFEGHIHJEKELJMJNOPA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111100 010111 010100101 111111 0011111 111101 01111101 101101 010101110 010111 010111001 1011 110010101 0101 11110101 111111 010011111 010101 01111111 111111 11110101 110101 11010111 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 738 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 591 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 143 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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