Analysis of Monody
Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
To have known him, to have loved him
After loneness long;
And then to be estranged in life,
And neither in the wrong;
And now for death to set his seal--
Ease me, a little ease, my song!
By wintry hills his hermit-mound
The sheeted snow-drifts drape,
And houseless there the snow-bird flits
Beneath the fir-trees' crape:
Glazed now with ice the cloistral vine
That hid the shyest grape.
Scheme | XAXAXA XBXBXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 1011 01110101 010001 01111111 11010111 11011101 01111 0110111 010111 1111011 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 383 |
Words | 71 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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