Analysis of In Memoriam
Louise Chandler Moulton 1835 (United States of America) – 1908 (Boston)
As the wind at play with a spark
Of fire that glows through the night;
As the speed of the soaring lark
That wings to the sky his flight -
So swiftly thy soul has sped
In its upward wonderful way,
Like the lark when the dawn is red,
In search of the shining day.
Thou art not with the frozen dead
Whom earth in the earth we lay,
While the bearers softly tread,
And the mourners kneel and pray;
From thy semblance, dumb and stark,
The soul has taken its flight -
Out of the finite dark,
Into the infinite Light.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111101 11011101 10110101 1110111 1101111 01101001 10110111 0110101 11110101 1100111 1010101 0010101 1110101 0111011 11011 0101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 498 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 198 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 15, 2023
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