Analysis of Epitaph On H. Walmsley, Esq.,
William Lisle Bowles 1762 (King's Sutton) – 1850
IN ALVERSTOKE CHURCH, HANTS.
Oh! they shall ne'er forget thee, they who knew
Thy soul benevolent, sincere, and true;
The poor thy kindness cheered, thy bounty fed,
Whom age left shivering in its dreariest shed;
Thy friends, who sorrowing saw thee, when disease
Seemed first the genial stream of life to freeze,
Pale from thy hospitable home depart,
Thy hand still open, and yet warm thy heart!
But how shall she her love, her loss express,
Thy widow, in this uttermost distress,
When she with anguish hears her lisping train
Upon their buried father call in vain!
She wipes the tear despair had forced to flow,
She lifts her look beyond this vale of woe,
And rests (while humbled in the dust she kneels)
On Him who only knows how much she feels.
Scheme | A BBCCAADDAAEEFFAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111 1111011111 1101000101 0111011101 1111000111 111111101 1101011111 1111100101 1111001111 1111010101 11001101 111101011 0111010101 1101011111 1101011111 0111000111 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 737 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 16 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 293 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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