Analysis of Consolation of Early Death
Sweet prince, the name of Death was never terrible
To him that knew to live; nor the loud torrent
Of all afflictions, singing as they swim,
A gall of heart, but to a guilty conscience:
Whilst we stand fair, though by a two-edged storm
We find untimely falls, like early roses,
Bent to the earth, we bear our native sweetness.
When we are little children,
And cry and fret for every toy comes 'cross us,
How sweetly do we shew, when sleep steals on us!
When we grow great, but our affection greater,
And struggle with this stubborn twin, born with us
And tug and pull, yet still we find a giant:
Had we not then the privilege to sleep
Our everlasting sleep, he would make us idiots.
The memory and monuments of good men
Are more than lives; and though their tombs want tongues
Yet have they eyes that daily sweat their losses,
And such a tear from stone no time can value.
To die both young and good are Nature's curses,
As the world says; ask Truth, they are bounteous blessings;
For then we reach at heaven in our full virtues,
And fix ourselves new stars, crown'd with our goodness.
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Metre | 110111110100 11111110110 1101010111 01111101010 1111110111 11010111010 110111101010 1111010 010111001111 11011111111 111111001010 01011101111 01011111010 111101011 1001011111100 01000100111 1111011111 11111101110 01011111110 11110111010 10111111110 1111110010110 0100111111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,072 |
Words | 204 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 847 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 202 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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