Analysis of Dora



SHE knelt upon her brother's grave,
   My little girl of six years old--
He used to be so good and brave,
   The sweetest lamb of all our fold;
He used to shout, he used to sing,
Of all our tribe the little king--
And so unto the turf her ear she laid,
To hark if still in that dark place he play'd.
   No sound! no sound!
   Death's silence was profound;
   And horror crept
   Into her aching heart, and Dora wept.
   If this is as it ought to be,
   My God, I leave it unto Thee.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11010101 11011111 11111101 010111101 11111111 111010101 0110010111 1111011111 1111 110101 0101 0101010101 11111111 11111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 490
Words 97
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 342
Words per stanza (avg) 95
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Thomas Edward Brown

Thomas Edward Brown Manx poet scholar and theologian was born at Douglas Isle of Man and educated at King Williams College more…

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