Analysis of The Beatific Vision
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
OH God! if I do my duty
And walk in the thorny way,
Will you pay me with heavens of beauty,
Millions of lives away?
Will you give me the music of heaven,
And the joy that none understands,
In place of what life would have given
If I had held out my hands?
I have lived in a narrow prison,
I have writhed 'neath a bitter creed,
And I dare to say that no heaven can pay
The renounced dream and deed,
But when my life's portal closes,
If you have no heaven to spare
God! give me a garden of roses,
And some one to walk with there.
Scheme | ABABCDCD CEBEFGFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111110 0100101 1111110110 101101 1111010110 0011101 011111110 1111111 111001010 11110101 01111111011 001101 11111010 11111011 111010110 0111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 520 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 201 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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