Analysis of The Bridge
Edward Thomas 1878 (London Borough of Lambeth) – 1917 (Pas-de-Calais)
I have come a long way to-day:
On a strange bridge alone,
Remembering friends, old friends,
I rest, without smile or moan,
As they remember me without smile or moan.
All are behind, the kind
And the unkind too, no more
To-night than a dream. The stream
Runs softly yet drowns the Past,
The dark-lit stream has drowned the Future and the Past.
No traveller has rest more blest
Than this moment brief between
Two lives, when the Night's first lights
And shades hide what has never been,
Things goodlier, lovelier, dearer, than will be or have been.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101111 101101 0100111 1101111 11010101111 110101 0001111 1110101 1101101 011111010001 11001111 1110101 1110111 01111101 11110111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 540 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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