Analysis of Requiem
Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894
For thee the birds shall never sing again,
Nor fresh green leaves come out upon the tree,
The brook shall no more murmur the refrain
For thee.
Thou liest underneath the windswept lea,
Thou dreamest not of pleasure or of pain,
Thou dreadest no to-morrow that shall be.
Deep rest is thine, unbroken by the rain,
Ay, or the thunder. Brother, canst thou see
The tears that night and morning fall in vain
For thee?
Scheme | xabA aba babA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110101 1111110101 0111110001 11 1101011 111110111 111110111 1111010101 1101010111 0111010101 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 415 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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