Analysis of Books
Zora Bernice May Cross 1890 (Eagle Farm, Queensland) – 1964 (Glenbrook, New South Wales)
Oh! Bury me in books when I am dead,
Fair quarto leaves of ivory and gold,
And silk octavos, bound in brown and red,
That tales of love and chivalry unfold.
Heap me in volumes of fine vellum wrought,
Creamed with the close content of silent speech;
Wrap me in sapphire tapestries of thought
From some old epic out of common reach.
I would my shroud were verse-embroidered too---
Your verse for preference—in starry stitch,
And powdered o’er with rhymes that poets woo,
Breathing dream-lyrics in moon-measures rich.
Night holds me with a horror of the grave
That knows not poetry, nor song, nor you;
Nor leaves of love that down the ages weave
Romance and fire in burnished cloths of blue.
Oh, bury me in books, and I’ll not mind
The cold, slow worms that coil around my head;
Since my lone soul may turn the page and find
The lines you wrote to me, when I am dead.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGEHEIAIA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1101011111 1101110001 01110101 1111010001 110101111 1101101101 11010010011 1111011101 1111010101 1111000101 0101111101 1011001101 1111010101 1111001111 1111110101 01010010111 1101010111 0111110111 1111110101 0111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 877 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 674 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 160 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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