Analysis of To the Memory of Claude Marquet
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Because to him the wise gods gave
Rare gifts, to lesser folk denied,
He might have thriven, Mammon's slave,
Rich in the goods that small men crave,
But poor in all beside.
And yet, because his was the pride
Possessed by earnest men and brave,
He stayed by his weak brothers' side
And there he fought, loved, laughed and died,
And went, loved, to his grave.
Because his was the simple heart
That found small lure in pelf or praise,
For greater ends he plied his art,
And, asking little, played his part
A rich man all his days.
The simple heart, the single aim
That guided e'er his ready pen,
The gay indifference to Fame
Things such as these shall leave a name
Cherished 'mid fellow men.
And we who knew that steady gaze,
The open hand, the ready laugh,
The fighting face and kindly ways,
Know, too, his smiling scorn of praise.
Yet this for epitaph:
A fighter all his days was he,
Yet, dying, left no enemy.
Scheme | ABAAB BABBA CDCCD EFEEF DGDDG HH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110111 11110101 111111 10011111 110101 01011101 01110101 11111101 01111101 011111 01110101 11110111 11011111 01010111 011111 01010101 110101101 01010011 11111101 101101 01111101 01010101 01010101 11110111 11110 01011111 11011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 891 |
Words | 172 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 2 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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