Analysis of Epitaph
Sir Walter Raleigh 1552 (Hayes Barton, East Budleigh, Devon) – 1618 (London)
Even such is time, which takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, and all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust,
Who in the dark and silent grave
When we have wandered all our ways
Shuts up the story of our days,
And from which earth, and grave, and dust
The Lord will raise me up, I trust.
| Scheme | ABACDDAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101111101 1011010111 01111101 10010101 111101101 110101101 01110101 01111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 298 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 220 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 20, 2023
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