Analysis of The Sad Day
Thomas Flatman 1635 (United Kingdom) – 1688
O THE sad day!
When friends shall shake their heads, and say
Of miserable me--
'Hark, how he groans!
Look, how he pants for breath!
See how he struggles with the pangs of death!'
When they shall say of these dear eyes--
'How hollow, O how dim they be!
Mark how his breast doth rise and swell
Against his potent enemy!'
When some old friend shall step to my bedside,
Touch my chill face, and thence shall gently slide.
But--when his next companions say
'How does he do? What hopes?'--shall turn away,
Answering only, with a lift-up hand--
'Who can his fate withstand?'
Then shall a gasp or two do more
Than e'er my rhetoric could before:
Persuade the world to trouble me no more!
Scheme | AABXCCXBXBDD AAEE FFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011 11111101 110001 1111 111111 1111010111 11111111 11011111 11111101 01110100 111111111 1111011101 11110101 1111111101 1001010111 111101 11011111 1101100101 0101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 686 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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