Analysis of Let The Weary World Go Round
Alfred Austin 1835 (Leeds) – 1913 (Ashford)
Let the weary world go round!
What care I?
Life's a surfeiting of sound:
I would die.
It would be so sweet to lie
Under waving grasses,
Where a maiden's footstep sly,
Tremulous for a lover nigh,
Sometimes passes.
Why, why remain?
Graves are the sovereign simples
Against life's pain;
Graves are the sheltering wimples
Against life's rain;
Graves are a mother's dimples
When we complain.
O Death! beautiful Death!
Why do they thee disfigure?
To me thy touch, thy breath,
Hath nor alarm nor rigour.
Thee do I long await;
I think thee very late;
I pine much to be going.
Others have gone before;
I hunger more and more
To know what they are knowing.
Heart, heart! be thou content!
Accept thy banishment;
Like other sorrows, life will end for thee.
Yet for a little while
Bear with this harsh exìle,
And Death will soften and will send for thee.
Scheme | ABABBCBBC DCDCDXD EFEFGGHIIH XXJXXJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111 111 10111 111 1111111 101010 10111 10010101 0110 1101 110101 0111 1101001 0111 1101010 1101 111001 1111010 111111 110111 111101 111101 1111110 101101 110101 1111110 111110 011100 1101011111 110101 111110 0111001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 819 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 7, 10, 6 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 163 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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