Analysis of Heraclitus
William Johnson Cory 1823 (Great Torrington) – 1892 (Hampstead)
They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,
They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.
I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I
Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest,
A handful of grey ashes, long long ago at rest,
Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake;
For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.
Scheme | AABB CCDD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111111101 11110111010111 1111010110101 11001110011101 011111011111 011110110111 11110101101 11110101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 436 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 08, 2023
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