Analysis of Undesired Revenge
Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894
Sorrow and sin have worked their will
For years upon your sovereign face,
And yet it keeps a faded trace
Of its unequalled beauty still,
As ruined sanctuaries hold
A crumbled trace of perfect mould
In shrines which saints no longer fill.
I knew you in your splendid morn,
Oh, how imperiously sweet!
I bowed and worshipped at your feet,
And you received my love with scorn.
Now I scorn you. It is a change,
When I consider it, how strange
That you, not I, should be forlorn.
Do you suppose I have no pain
To see you play this sorry part,
With faded face and broken heart,
And life lived utterly in vain?
Oh would to God that you once more
Might scorn me as you did of yore,
And I might worship you again!
Scheme | ABBACCA DEEDFFD GHHGIIX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10011111 11011101 01110101 111101 1101001 01011011 01111101 11101101 1111 11010111 01011111 11111101 11010111 11111101 11011111 11111101 11010101 01110001 11111111 11111111 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 691 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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