Analysis of Blessed Are The Dead. (From The German)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
O, how blest are ye whose toils are ended!
Who, through death, have unto God ascended!
Ye have arisen
From the cares which keep us still in prison.
We are still as in a dungeon living,
Still oppressed with sorrow and misgiving;
Our undertakings
Are but toils, and troubles, and heart-breakings.
Ye, meanwhile, are in your chambers sleeping,
Quiet, and set free from all our weeping;
No cross nor trial
Hinders your enjoyments with denial.
Christ has wiped away your tears for ever;
Ye have that for which we still endeavour.
To you are chanted
Songs which yet no mortal ear have haunted.
Ah! who would not, then, depart with gladness,
To inherit heaven for earthly sadness?
Who here would languish
Longer in bewailing and in anguish?
Come, O Christ, and loose the chains that bind us!
Lead us forth, and cast this world behind us!
With thee, the Anointed,
Finds the soul its joy and rest appointed.
Scheme | AABB CCDD CCEE FFXA DGHH GGAA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 1111111110 1111101010 11010 1011111010 1111001010 1011100010 10100 111010011 111011010 10011111010 11110 1010101010 1110111110 1111111010 11110 1111101110 111110111 10101011010 11110 10010010 1110101111 1110111011 110010 1011101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 883 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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