Analysis of The Close Of The Session
Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894
The Session's over. We must say farewell
To these east winds and to this eastern sea,
For summer comes, with swallow and with bee,
With many a flower and many a golfing swell.
No more the horribly discordant bell
Shall startle slumber; and all men agree
That whatsoever other things may be
A cause of sorrow, this at least is well.
The class-room shall not open wide its doors,
Or if it does, such opening will be vain;
The gown shall hang unused upon a nail;
South Street shall know us not; we'll wipe the Scores
From our remembrance; as for Mutto's Lane,
Yea, even the memory of this shall fail.
Scheme | ABBA ABBA CDECDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101111 1111011101 1101110011 1100100100101 1101000101 1101001101 101010111 0111011111 0111110111 11111100111 0111010101 1111111101 1100101111 11001001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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