Analysis of The Pilgrims
John McCrae 1872 (Guelph) – 1918 (Boulogne-sur-Mer)
An uphill path, sun-gleams between the showers,
Where every beam that broke the leaden sky
Lit other hills with fairer ways than ours;
Some clustered graves where half our memories lie;
And one grim Shadow creeping ever nigh:
And this was Life.
Wherein we did another's burden seek,
The tired feet we helped upon the road,
The hand we gave the weary and the weak,
The miles we lightened one another's load,
When, faint to falling, onward yet we strode:
This too was Life.
Till, at the upland, as we turned to go
Amid fair meadows, dusky in the night,
The mists fell back upon the road below;
Broke on our tired eyes the western light;
The very graves were for a moment bright:
And this was Death.
Scheme | ABABBC DEDEEC FGFGGX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101010 11001110101 11011101110 110111101001 011110101 0111 0111010101 0101110101 0111010001 0111010101 1111010111 1111 1101011111 01111001 0111010101 11101010101 0101010101 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 729 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 181 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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