Analysis of The Old Man's Grave
Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)
Make it where the winds may sweep
Through the pine boughs soft and deep,
And the murmur of the sea
Come across the orient lea,
And the falling raindrops sing
Gently to his slumbering.
Make it where the meadows wide
Greenly lie on every side,
Harvest fields he reaped and trod,
Westering slopes of clover sod,
Orchard lands where bloom and blow
Trees he planted long ago.
Make it where the starshine dim
May be always close to him,
And the sunrise glory spread
Lavishly around his bed.
And the dewy grasses creep
Tenderly above his sleep.
Since these things to him were dear
Through full many a well-spent year,
It is surely meet their grace
Should be on his resting-place,
And the murmur of the sea
Be his dirge eternally.
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Metre | 1110111 1011101 0010101 1010101 001011 1011100 111011 10111001 1011101 111101 1011101 1110101 111011 111111 001101 1000111 0010101 1000111 1111101 11100111 1110111 1111101 0010101 1110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 730 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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