Analysis of Songs From “Death’s Jest-Book” II - Dirge
Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1803 (Clifton, Bristol) – 1849 (Basel)
IF thou wilt ease thine heart
Of love and all its smart,
Then sleep, dear, sleep;
And not a sorrow
Hang any tear on your eye-lashes;
Lie still and deep,
Sad soul, until the sea-wave washes
The rim o’ the sun to-morrow,
In eastern sky.
But wilt thou cure thine heart
Of love and all its smart,
Then die, dear, die;
’T is deeper, sweeter,
Than on a rose bank to lie dreaming
With folded eye;
And then alone, amid the beaming
Of love’s stars, thou ’lt meet her
In eastern sky.
Scheme | aAbcdbdcE aAefgegfE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 110111 1111 01010 110111110 1101 110101110 01101110 0101 111111 110111 1111 111010 110111110 1101 010101010 1111110 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 539 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 178 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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