Analysis of Catullus At His Brother’s Grave
Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894
Through many lands and over many seas
I come, my Brother, to thine obsequies,
To pay thee the last honours that remain,
And call upon thy voiceless dust, in vain.
Since cruel fate has robbed me even of thee,
Unhappy Brother, snatched away from me,
Now none the less the gifts our fathers gave,
The melancholy honours of the grave,
Wet with my tears I bring to thee, and say
Farewell! farewell! for ever and a day.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1101010101 11110111 111011101 0101110101 11011111011 0101010111 11010110101 01001101 1111111101 11110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 412 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 322 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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