Analysis of Change and Death
Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)
We build but for change and for death,
To whom a like homage pay glory and shame;
For something must pass to give being to both.
All things are rounded by change, and are perishing—
Even the God-builded frame of the world.
The glories of life, as they shine,
But illumine a path to the gloom of the grave,
And the winter of shame is soon over and gone!
Of all we inherit, behold the inheritors!
Throned on the endless successions of Time.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJ |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111011 11011011001 11011111011 111101101100 100111101 01011111 1101101101 001011111001 1110100101 11010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 449 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 342 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 83 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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