Analysis of Song [When I am dead, my dearest]
Christina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.
I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on, as if in pain:
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110 111111 11110111 110101 1011011 110011 0111010 011101 111101 111101 11110100 111101 010101 111111 111010 01101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 456 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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