Lyric Poem · Death & Loss
Requiescat
by Oscar Wilde · 1881
21Avignon.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- Requiescat
- Poet
- Oscar Wilde
- Published
- 1881
- Length
- 21 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Elegy
- Themes
- Death & Loss, Grief, Short
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 21 lines · 6 stanzas of 1–4 lines
- Line length
- Lines run 4-6 syllables (median 5). No single length dominates, which is normal once elision and contraction are in play.
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Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
Full-text display is based on the cited edition and a United States term-expiry review.
- Author record
- Oscar Wilde1854–1900
- Source record
- WikisourceRequiescat by oscar-wilde, Wikisource transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- 1881
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 60164525bd950ba9…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.