Analysis of And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Dylan Thomas 1914 (Swansea) – 1953 (Greenwich Village)
And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down
And death shall have no dominion.
Scheme | AaxxxbxxA AcxxxddxA AxcxbxxxA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111010 11101111 1010010011 11111100111 11111101 11111111 11110111101 11011111 01111010 01111010 1001101 11011111 10111111 110111111 10111101 001010111 11111111 01111010 01111010 11111111 1111101 11010101011 111101101 11110111 11010010110 100110111 01111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,044 |
Words | 205 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 281 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 68 |
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