Analysis of Evening Star
Edgar Allan Poe 1809 (Boston) – 1849 (Baltimore)
'Twas noontide of summer,
And mid-time of night;
And stars, in their orbits,
Shone pale, thro' the light
Of the brighter, cold moon,
'Mid planets her slaves,
Herself in the Heavens,
Her beam on the waves.
I gazed awhile
On her cold smile;
Too cold- too cold for me-
There pass'd, as a shroud,
A fleecy cloud,
And I turned away to thee,
Proud Evening Star,
In thy glory afar,
And dearer thy beam shall be;
For joy to my heart
Is the proud part
Thou bearest in Heaven at night,
And more I admire
Thy distant fire,
Than that colder, lowly light.
Scheme | ABCBDEFEGGHIIHJJHKKBLAB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 01111 010110 11101 101011 11001 010010 01101 1101 1011 111111 11101 0101 0110111 1101 011001 0101111 11111 1011 1101011 01101 11010 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 868 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 411 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 103 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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