Analysis of Grief-Song
John Bannister Tabb 1845 (Amelia County) – 1909 ( Ellicott City)
New grief, new tears;-
Brief the reign of sorrow;
Clouds that gather with the night
Scatter on the morrow.
Old grief, old tears;-
Come and gone together;
Not a fleck upon the sky
Telling whence or whither.
Old grief, new tears;-
Deep to deep is calling:
Life is but a passing cloud
Whence the rain is falling.
| Scheme | ABXB ACXC ADXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111 101110 1110101 101010 1111 101010 1010101 101110 1111 111110 1110101 101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 306 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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