The Dead Lover
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
Time is so long when a man is dead!
Some one sews; and the room is made
Very clean; and the light is shed
Soft through the window-shade.
Yesterday I thought: 'I know
Just how the bells will sound, and how
The friends will talk, and the sermon go,
And the hearse-horse bow and bow!'
This is to-day; and I have no thing
To think of-- nothing whatever to do
But to hear the throb of the pulse of a wing
That wants to fly back to you.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 427 |
Words | 91 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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