Analysis of Oh! Breathe Not His Name
Thomas Moore 1779 (Dublin) – 1852 (Bromham)
Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade,
Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid:
Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed,
As the night-dew that falls on the grass o'er his head.
But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it weeps,
Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he sleeps;
And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls,
Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
Scheme | AABB CCDD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111111001 110111011 11001101111 1011111011011 101111101011 1101101111 001111101011 111110010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 427 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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