Analysis of Age
William Lisle Bowles 1762 (King's Sutton) – 1850
Age, thou the loss of health and friends shalt mourn!
But thou art passing to that night-still bourne,
Where labour sleeps. The linnet, chattering loud
To the May morn, shall sing; thou, in thy shroud,
Forgetful and forgotten, sink to rest;
And grass-green be the sod upon thy breast!
Scheme | AABBCC |
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Poetic Form | Sestain |
Metre | 1101110111 1111011111 1110101001 1011111011 0100010111 0111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 287 |
Words | 51 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 222 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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