Analysis of Requiescat
Oscar Wilde 1854 (Dublin) – 1900 (Paris)
Tread lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The daises grow.
All her bright golden hair
Tarnished with rust
She that was young and fair
Fallen to dust.
Lily-like, white as snow,
She hardly knew
She was a woman, so
Sweetly she grew.
Coffin-board, heavy stone,
Lie on her breast;
I vex my heart alone,
She is at rest.
Peace, peace; she cannot hear
Lyre or sonnet;
All my life's buried here,
Heap earth upon it.
Scheme | XABA CDCD AEAE FGFG BHBH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 110111 1001 110111 011 101101 1011 111101 1011 101111 1101 110101 1011 101101 1101 111101 1111 111101 1110 111101 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 445 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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