Analysis of an Archeology Poem
James Elroy Flecker 1884 (London) – 1915
We are dead by our living was great;
We are dumb but a song of our state
Will roam through the darkness and wait
With its burden of long long ago.
'Til a scholar from sea bright lands
Unearths from the years and the sands
An image with beautiful hands
And know what we want him to know.
| Scheme | AAABCCCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111101011 1111011101 11101001 111011101 10101111 1101001 11011001 01111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 286 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 225 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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an Archeology Poem -- I do not know the title but my archeologist mother quoted it often.
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