Analysis of Epitaph



Read with a gentle breast,
These murmurs of earth and sky
Then truly have you seen,
Beneth this sod a woman lie
With anguish moist and fever dew
Who in her life has done nothing wrong

Although it be a history
Here on her hours as a book
Bliss was it at the dawn of her life
Fresh as the morning star
But melancholy marked her for assault
The wild-witch thorns among
Huge and mighty forms who do not live
Such a parcel of rouges

Sad, the tales of this idel page
Make my thoughts acquainted with the grave
But not a blink of light was there.


Scheme XAXAXX XXXXXXXX XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 110101 1101101 110111 1110101 11010101 100111101 1110100 11010101 111101101 110101 110010101 011101 101011111 101011 1011111 111010101 11011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 523
Words 107
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 8, 3
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 143
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Submitted on October 15, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Christopher Azakor Nwakwesi

I am a Nigerian and a financial economist with diverse occupational experiences as a banker,career civil servant,petroleum economist and insurance man.I write poetry and short stories with many public and private appearances.To me poetry is a heritage because I came from a background where great and special events are marked poetically. more…

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