Analysis of To the Memory of Sarah Livingston
Major Henry Livingston Jr. 1748 (Poughkeepsie, Province of New York) – 1828 (Poughkeepsie, New York)
BEYOND where billows roll or tempests vex
Is gone the gentlest of the gentle sex!
---Her brittle bark on life's wild ocean tost
Unequal to the conflict soon was lost.
Severe her sufferings! much, alas, she bore,
Then sunk beneath the storm & rose no more.
But when th' Archangel's awful trump shall sound
And vibrate life thro all the deep profound
Her renovated vessel will be seen,
Transcendant floating on the silver stream!
All beauteous to behold! serene she glides
Borne on by mildest & propitious tides;
While fanning zephyrs fill her snow white sails
And aid her passage with the friendliest gales
Till safe within the destin'd port of bliss
She furls her sails and moors in endless peace.
| Scheme | AABBCCBBDEFFGGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011101111 11010010101 0101111101 0101010111 01010010111 110101111 1111110111 0101110101 010010111 11010101 111010111 111100101 1101010111 01010101001 1101010111 1101010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 691 |
| Words | 123 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 556 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 121 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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