Analysis of Threnody For A Poet
Bliss William Carman 1861 (Fredericton, New Brunswick) – 1929 (New Canaan, Connecticut)
Not in the ancient abbey,
Nor in the city ground,
Not in the lonely mountains,
Nor in the blue profound,
Lay him to rest when his time is come
And the smiling mortal lips are dumb;
But here in the decent quiet
Under the whispering pines,
Where the dogwood breaks in blossom
And the peaceful sunlight shines,
Where wild birds sing and ferns unfold,
When spring comes back in her green and gold.
And when that mortal likeness
Has been dissolved by fire,
Say not above the ashes,
'Here ends a man's desire.'
For every year when the bluebirds sing,
He shall be part of the lyric spring.
Then dreamful-hearted lovers
Shall hear in wind and rain
The cadence of his music,
The rhythm of his refrain,
For he was a blade of the April sod
That bowed and blew with the whisper of God.
Scheme | XAXABB XCBCDD XEXEFF XGXGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001010 100101 1001010 100101 111111111 001010111 11001010 1001001 1011010 001011 11110101 111100101 0111010 1101110 1101010 1101010 110011011 111110101 111010 110101 0101110 0101101 1110110101 1101101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 758 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 18, 2023
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