Analysis of A Thought For A Lonely Death-Bed
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 (Kelloe) – 1861 (Florence)
IF God compel thee to this destiny,
To die alone, with none beside thy bed
To ruffle round with sobs thy last word said
And mark with tears the pulses ebb from thee,--
Pray then alone, ' O Christ, come tenderly !
By thy forsaken Sonship in the red
Drear wine-press,--by the wilderness out-spread,--
And the lone garden where thine agony
Fell bloody from thy brow,--by all of those
Permitted desolations, comfort mine !
No earthly friend being near me, interpose
No deathly angel 'twixt my face aud thine,
But stoop Thyself to gather my life's rose,
And smile away my mortal to Divine ! '
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Metre | 1101111100 1101110111 1101111111 0111010111 1101111100 110101001 1111010011 0011011100 1101111111 0101101 1101101101 1101011111 111110111 0101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 582 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 453 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 25, 2023
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