Analysis of The Dying Gipsy Smuggler
Sir Walter Scott 1771 (College Wynd, Edinburgh) – 1832 (Abbotsford, Roxburghshire)
Wasted, weary, wherefore stay,
Wrestling thus with earth and clay?
From the body pass away;-
Hark! the mass is singing.
From thee doff thy mortal weed,
Mary Mother be thy speed,
Saints to help thee at thy need;-
Hark! the knell is ringing.
Fear not snow-drift driving fast,
Sleet, or hail, or levin blast;
Soon the shroud shall lap thee fast,
And the sleep be on thee cast
That shall ne'er know waking.
Haste thee, haste thee, to be gone,
Earth flits fast, and time draws on,-
Gasp thy gasp, and groan thy groan,
Day is near the breaking.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101011 1011101 1010101 101110 1111101 1010111 1111111 101110 1111101 1111101 1011111 0011111 111110 1111111 1110111 1110111 111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 530 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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