Analysis of A Rhyme of Death's Inn

Lizette Woodworth Reese 1856 (Waverly) – 1935



A rhyme of good Death's inn!
   My love came to that door;
And she had need of many things,
   The way had been so sore.

My love she lifted up her head,
   "And is there room?" said she;
"There was no room in Bethlehem's inn
   For Christ who died for me."

But said the keeper of the inn,
   "His name is on the door."
My love then straightway entered there:
   She hath come back no more.


Scheme ABXB XCAC ABXB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 011111 111111 01111101 011111 11110101 011111 11110101 111111 11010101 111101 1111101 111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 397
Words 81
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 92
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 25, 2023

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Lizette Woodworth Reese

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