Analysis of Fame Is A Food That Dead Men Eat
Henry Austin Dobson 1840 (Plymouth) – 1921
Fame is a food that dead men eat,-
I have no stomach for such meat.
In little light and narrow room,
They eat it in the silent tomb,
With no kind voice of comrade near
To bid the banquet be of cheer.
But Friendship is a nobler thing,-
Of Friendship it is good to sing.
For truly, when a man shall end,
He lives in memory of his friend,
Who doth his better part recall,
And of his faults make funeral.
Scheme | AABBCC DDEEXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 11110111 01010101 11100101 1111111 11010111 11010101 11011111 11010111 110100111 1111011 01111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 397 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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