Analysis of When Death to Either shall come
Robert Seymour Bridges 1844 (Walmer, Kent) – 1930 (Boars Hill, Berkshire)
When Death to either shall come,—
I pray it be first to me,—
Be happy as ever at home,
If so, as I wish, it be.
Possess thy heart, my own;
And sing to the child on thy knee,
Or read to thyself alone
The songs that I made for thee.
| Scheme | XAXA BABA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111011 1111111 11011011 1111111 011111 01101111 111101 0111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 242 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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