Analysis of In a Christian Churchyard
James Thomson 1700 (Port Glasgow) – 1748 (London)
This field of stones, he said,
May well call forth a sigh;
Beneath them lie the dead,
On them the living lie.
Scheme | ABAB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111111 111101 011101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 114 |
Words | 24 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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