Analysis of The Dead
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
The dead abide with us! Though stark and cold
Earth seems to grip them, they are with us still:
They have forged our chains of being for good or ill;
And their invisible hands these hands yet hold.
Our perishable bodies are the mould
In which their strong imperishable will--
Mortality's deep yearning to fulfil--
Hath grown incorporate through dim time untold.
Vibrations infinite of life in death,
As a star's travelling light survives its star!
So may we hold our lives, that when we are
The fate of those who then will draw this breath,
They shall not drag us to their judgment bar,
And curse the heritage which we bequeath.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101111101 1111111111 1111011101111 01010011111 10100010101 011111 111011 1101011101 0101001101 10110010111 11111011111 0111111111 1111111101 0101001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 636 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 250 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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