Analysis of On A Friend Who Died Suddenly Upon The Seashore
Quiet he lived, and quietly died;
Nor, like the unwilling tide,
Did once complain or strive
To stay one brief hour more alive.
But as a summer wave
Serenely for a while
Will lift a crest to the sun,
Then sink again, so he
Back to the bright heavens gave
An answering smile;
Then quietly, having run
His course, bowed down his head,
And sank unmurmuringly,
Sank back into the sea,
The silent, the unfathomable sea
Of all the happy dead.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101001 1100101 110111 111110101 110101 0100101 1101101 110111 1101101 11001 1100101 111111 011 110101 0100010001 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 422 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 340 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 81 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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