Analysis of To The Lamented Memory Of F. H. C.
John Kenyon 1784 (Trelawney Jamaica) – 1856 (Jamaica)
Sweet friend, farewell! to whom propitious birth
Gave beauty—sense—the prosperous goods of earth;
To whom not less were faith and duty given,
Those better gifts which fit our earth for heaven.
First by glad days—then through long sickness tried,
'Mid pleasures—pure—by pain still purified;—
Such was that soul, which meekly kissed the rod,
Then soared, for us too soon, and rests with God.
Farewell! our love inscribes this faithful stone,
Not to bewail thy lot, but weep our own.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111110101 11010100111 11110101010 110111101110 1111111101 110111110 1111110101 1111110111 1101011101 1111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 491 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 379 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 79 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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