Analysis of In a Breton Cemetery
Ernest Christopher Dowson 1867 – 1900
They sleep well here,
These fisher-folk who passed their anxious days
In fierce Atlantic ways;
And found not there,
Beneath the long curled wave,
So quiet a grave.
And they sleep well,
These peasant-folk, who told their lives away,
From day to market-day,
As one should tell,
With patient industry,
Some sad old rosary.
And now night falls,
Me, tempest-tost, and driven from pillar to post,
A poor worn ghost,
This quiet pasture calls;
And dear dead people with pale hands
Beckon me to their lands.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 1101111101 010101 0111 010111 11001 0111 1101111101 111101 1111 110100 111100 0111 110101011011 0111 110101 01110111 101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 489 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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