Analysis of Mrs. Charles N. Cadwallader,
Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney 1791 ( Norwich) – 1865
Died at Philadelphia, July 2nd, 1859, five weeks after her marriage.
The year rolls round, and brings again
The bright, auspicious day,
The marriage scene, the festive cheer,
The group serenely gay,
The hopes that nurs'd by sun and shower
O'er youth's fair trellis wound,
And in that consecrated rite
Their full fruition found.
But One unseen amid the throng
Drew near with purpose fell,
And lo! the orange-flowers were changed
To mournful asphodel.
Five sabbaths walk'd the beautiful
Her chosen lord beside,
But ere the sixth illumed the sky
She was that dread One's bride.
Yet call her not the bride of Death
Though in his bed she sleeps,
And broidering Myrtle richly green
O'er her cold pillow creeps:
She hath a bower where angels dwell,
A mansion with the blest,
For Jesus whom she trusted here,
Receiv'd her to His rest.
Scheme | X XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXD XEXE CFXF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110100111110010 01110101 010101 01010101 0101001 011111010 1011101 0011001 110101 11010101 111101 010101001 1101 11010100 010101 1101101 111111 11010111 101111 0110101 1001101 110101101 010101 11011101 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 810 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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