Analysis of Ni-Chan’s Dirge For Yen-Oey
Augusta Davies Webster 1837 (Poole, Dorset) – 1894
SO soon asleep! Now must the coming years
Weep ignorantly their loss they cannot know,
And life miss ever what has never been
We weep to-day, let theirs be sadder tears
Who have not seen thee near as we have seen,
Who shall but learn a hope died long ago.
Alas for flowers untimely winds have broken,
That should have scattered seed of following flowers!
Alas for ruin of unbuilded towers!
Alas for ripening words that die unspoken!
But let them weep with sadder tears than ours
Who shall but learn a hope died long ago,
A world's hope long ago.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110101 11111101 0111011101 1111111101 1111111111 1111011101 011100101110 111101110010 011101110 011100111010 11111101110 1111011101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 541 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 432 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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