Analysis of On The Death of A Certain Journal



So die, thou child of stormy dawn,
Thou winter flower, forlorn of nurse;
Chilled early by the bigot's curse,
The pedant's frown, the worldling's yawn.

Fair death, to fall in teeming June,
When every seed which drops to earth
Takes root, and wins a second birth
From steaming shower and gleaming moon.

Fall warm, fall fast, thou mellow rain;
Thou rain of God, make fat the land;
That roots which parch in burning sand
May bud to flower and fruit again.

To grace, perchance, a fairer morn
In mightier lands beyond the sea,
While honour falls to such as we
From hearts of heroes yet unborn,

Who in the light of fuller day,
Of purer science, holier laws,
Bless us, faint heralds of their cause,
Dim beacons of their glorious way.

Failure? While tide-floods rise and boil
Round cape and isle, in port and cove,
Resistless, star-led from above:
What though our tiny wave recoil?


Scheme ABBA CDDC XEEX FGGF HXXH IXXI
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 11111101 110100111 1101011 011011 11110101 110011111 11010101 110100101 11111101 11111101 11110101 111100101 11010101 010010101 1111111 11110111 10011101 110101001 11110111 110111001 10111101 11010101 111101 111010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 857
Words 157
Sentences 7
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 113
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley was a priest of the Church of England, a university professor, historian and novelist. more…

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