Analysis of Peace! What Do Tears Avail?
Barry Cornwall 1787 (Leeds, Yorkshire) – 1874 (London)
PEACE! what do tears avail?
She lies all dumb and pale,
And from her eye
The spirit of lovely life is fading,
And she must die!
Why looks the lover wroth? the friend upbraiding?
Reply, reply!
Hath she not dwelt too long
’Midst pain, and grief, and wrong?
Then, why not die?
Why suffer again her doom of sorrow,
And hopeless lie?
Why nurse the trembling dream until to-morrow?
Reply, reply!
Death! Take her to thine arms,
In all her stainless charms,
And with her fly
To heavenly haunts, where, clad in brightness,
The Angels lie.
Wilt bear her there, O Death! in all her whiteness?
Reply, reply!
| Scheme | aabcbcB ddbebeB ffbgbgB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101 111101 0101 0101101110 0111 110101011 0101 111111 110101 1111 1100101110 0101 110100101110 0101 110111 010101 0101 1100111010 0101 11011101010 0101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 630 |
| Words | 110 |
| Sentences | 17 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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