Analysis of In Memoriam E.S.
Frederick George Scott 1861 (Montreal, Quebec) – 1944 (Quebec City, Quebec)
HER love was that full love which, like a tide,
Flows in and out life's smallest gulfs and bays,
And fills with music through long summer days
Cold hearts that else would stern and dark abide.
Her smile would cheer, her faintest look could chide;
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No soul too outcast, none too lowly born,
For her kind ear; and none too high for scorn
Of mean pretence, or wrong, or foolish pride.
She loved all Nature; mountain, stream, and tree
To her were thoughts or language for the thought
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She could not utter, signs of truths too high
To set to words. Her love, too, like a tide,
Flowed daily back with cares its surface brought
To the still vast beneath eternal sky.
Scheme | ABBAACDDAEFCGAFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111111101 1001110101 0111011101 1111110101 0111010111 1 111111101 1011011111 111111101 1111010101 1001110101 1 1111011111 1111011101 1101111101 1011010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 695 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 517 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 124 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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