Analysis of Gordon's Grave
Francis William Lauderdale Adams 1862 – 1893
All the heat and the glow and the hush
of the summer afternoon;
the scent of the sweet-briar bush
over bowing grass-blades and broom;
the birds that flit and pass;
singing the song he knows,
the grass-hopper in the grass;
the voice of the she-oak boughs.
Ah, and the shattered column
crowned with the poet's wreath.
Who, who keeps silent and solemn
his passing place beneath?
~This was a poet that loved God's breath;
his life was a passionate quest;
he looked down deep in the wells of death,
and now he is taking his rest.~
Scheme | XXXX AXAX BCBC DEDE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 101001001 101001 01101101 10101101 011101 100111 0110001 0110111 1001010 110101 11110010 110101 110101111 11101001 111100111 01111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 557 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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