Analysis of Victor Necrophilia

Lee Russell 1950 (Massachusetts)



i heard his death i mem'ry'd him  
i conjured him before me slim  
i looked on him whom i had known  
so dangerous dark so little known  
my tongue ungrown not yet to speak  
it yesses he without retreat  
who now is stygian he among
but stands here still before me won
as darkling as he lived to me  
he may as this a shadow be  
but just as darkly see'd i he  
whose musk whose swart i smell i see
he saturnine and silent, he  
as he is dead as I shall be  
as we now consummate shall be
as we now consummated be.


Scheme AABBCDEFGGGGGGGG
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111 11010111 11111111 110011101 1111111 1110101 111100101 11110111 1111111 1111011 11110111 11111111 110101 11111111 11110011 1111001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 520
Words 120
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 384
Words per stanza (avg) 105

About this poem

On hearing of the death of one I knew.

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Written on May 17, 2019

Submitted by lrussell876 on September 25, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Lee Russell

Lee is a student majoring in English at the University of South Carolina-Beaufort. more…

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