Analysis of The Grave of Love
Thomas Love Peacock 1785 (Weymouth, Dorset) – 1866
I DUG, beneath the cypress shade,
What well might seem an elfin's grave;
And every pledge in earth I laid,
That erst thy false affection gave.
I press'd them down the sod beneath;
I placed one mossy stone above;
And twined the rose's fading wreath
Around the sepulchre of love.
Frail as thy love, the flowers were dead
Ere yet the evening sun was set:
But years shall see the cypress spread,
Immutable as my regret.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 11010101 1111111 010010111 11110101 11110101 1111101 01010101 010111 111101001 11010111 11110101 01001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 441 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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