Analysis of A Song Of Suicide
Deeming that I were better dead,
"How shall I kill myself?" I said.
Thus mooning by the river Seine
I sought extinction without pain,
When on a bridge I saw a flash
Of lingerie and heard a splash . . .
So as I am a swimmer stout
I plunged and pulled the poor wretch out.
The female that I saved? Ah yes,
To yield the Morgue of one corpse the less,
Apart from all heroic action,
Gave me a moral satisfaction.
was she an old and withered hag,
Too tired of life to long to lag?
Ah no, she was so young and fair
I fell in love with her right there.
And when she took me to her attic
Her gratitude was most emphatic.
A sweet and simple girl she proved,
Distraught because the man she loved
In battle his life-blood had shed . . .
So I, too, told her of my dead,
The girl who in a garret grey
Had coughed and coughed her life away.
Thus as we sought our griefs to smother,
With kisses we consoled each other . . .
And there's the ending of my story;
It wasn't grim, it wasn't gory.
For comforted were hearts forlorn,
And from black sorrow joy was born:
So may our dead dears be forgiving,
And bless the rapture of the living.
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Metre | 1110101 1111111 11101010 11010011 11011101 1100101 11110101 11010111 0111111 110111101 011101010 11010010 11110101 110111111 11111101 11011011 011111010 01011010 01010111 01010111 01011111 11110111 01100101 11010101 1111101110 110101110 010101110 110111010 11000101 01110111 1110111010 010101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,099 |
Words | 220 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 213 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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