Analysis of In Memoriam. - Caleb Hazen Talcott,
Son of C. TALCOTT, Esq., died at Hartford, October 26th, 1860, aged 2 years and 6 months.
There came a merry voice
Forth from those lips of rose,
As tireless through its fringing flowers
The tuneful brooklet flows,
And with the nurslings feet
Engaged in busy play
It made the parents' pleasant home
A joyance all the day.
There breath'd a languid tone
Forth from those pallid lips,
As when some planet of the night
Sinks in its dread eclipse.
"Sing to me, sing," it cried,
While the red fever reign'd,
"Oh sing of Jesus,"[1] it implored
While struggling life remained.
Then rose a mournful sound,
The solemn funeral knell,
And silent anguish settled where
The nursery's idol fell.
But he who so desired
His Saviour's name to hear
Doth in His glorious presence smile,
Above this cloud-wrapp'd sphere.
Scheme | X XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXD XEXE XXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011110010111101 110101 111111 110011110 01011 01011 010101 11010101 01101 110101 111101 11110101 101101 111111 101101 11111101 1100101 110101 0101001 01010101 01101 1111010 11111 101100101 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 796 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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