Analysis of Death at the Window
Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894
This morning, while we sat in talk
Of spring and apple-bloom,
Lo! Death stood in the garden walk,
And peered into the room.
Your back was turned, you did not see
The shadow that he made.
He bent his head and looked at me;
It made my soul afraid.
The words I had begun to speak
Fell broken in the air.
You saw the pallor of my cheek,
And turned--but none was there.
He came as sudden as a thought,
And so departed too.
What made him leave his task unwrought?
It was the sight of you.
Though Death but seldom turns aside
From those he means to take,
He would not yet our hearts divide,
For love and pity's sake.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF XGDG HIHI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11011101 110101 11100101 010101 11111111 01111 11110111 111101 01110111 110001 1101111 011111 11110101 010101 1111111 110111 11110101 111111 111110101 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 598 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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