Analysis of A Departed Friend
Julia A Moore 1847 – 1920
He is sleeping, sounding sleeping
In the cold and silent tomb.
He is resting, sweetly resting
In perfect peace, all alone.
He has left us, God bereft us,
And his will must e'er be done,
It will grieve us, and bereave us
To think of this noble son.
While on earth he done his duty,
To all his fellow men,
Some will miss him in his of office,
Where he often used the pen.
He was witty, always happy,
Kind and genial in his way;
He was generous in his actions,
And his honor could display.
He has held many an office,
And has done his duty well;
And his name will be remembered
By the friends that knew him well.
Friends are weeping, softly weeping,
In his kind and loving home;
Let him slumber, sweetly slumber,
Till God calls him from the tomb.
Scheme | ABAX CDCD EFCF EGXG CHXH AXXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11101010 0010101 11101010 0011101 11111011 01111011 11110011 1111101 11111110 111101 111101110 1110101 1110110 1010011 111000110 0110101 11110110 0111101 01111010 1011111 11101010 0110101 11101010 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 728 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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