Analysis of In a Lonesome Burial-Place
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
In a lonesome burial-place
Crouched a mourner white of face;
Wild her eyes--unheeding
Circling pomp of night and day--
Ever crying, "Well away,
Love lies a-bleeding!"
And her sighs were like a knell,
And her tears for ever fell,
With their warm rain feeding
That purpureal flower, alas!
Trailing prostrate in the grass,
Love lies a-bleeding.
Through the yews' black-tufted gloom
Crimson light fell on the tomb,
Funeral shadows breeding:
In the sky the sun's light shed
Dyed the earth one awful red--
Love lies a-bleeding.
Came grey mists, and blanching cloud
Bore one universal shroud;
Came the bowed moon leading,
From the infinite afar
Star that rumoured unto star--
Love that lies a-bleeding.
Scheme | aabccB ddbeeB ffbggB hhbiib |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 00101001 1010111 1011 10011101 1010101 11010 0010101 0011101 111110 111001 1010001 11010 1011101 1011101 100110 0010111 1011101 11010 111011 110101 101110 1010001 111101 111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 703 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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