Analysis of To a Man who Wished to Die
Leon Gellert 1892 (Australia) – 1977
And now that you are dead, - If I should die
Upon this ground,
And open my new eye,
I’d leave my body dead,
Just like a garment shed
Without a sound;
And go to you within that dingy room
Above the stair,
To find you in the gloom,
As though you sadly dozed,
With dead eyes partly closed,
Within your chair.
Then would I find you sad, who used to weep
At death’s delay;
And I would notice creep
Upon your cheek a tear
At finding Heaven so near,
And Earth so far away.
Scheme | ABACCB DEDFFE GHGEXH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111111111 0111 010111 111101 110101 0101 0111011101 0101 111001 111101 111101 0111 1111111111 1101 011101 011101 1101011 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 460 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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