Analysis of Proem
Francis William Lauderdale Adams 1862 – 1893
IN the black night, along the mud-deep roads,
Amid the threatening boughs and ghastly streams,
Hark! sounds that gird the darknesses like goads,
Murmurs and rumours and reverberant dreams,
Trampling, breaths, movements, and a little light. —
The marching of the Army of the Night!
The stricken men, the mad brute-beasts are keeping
No more their places in the ditches or holes,
But rise, and join us, and the women, weeping
Beside the roadways, rise like demon-souls.
Fill up the ranks! What shimmers there so bright?
The bayonets of the Army of the Night!
Fill up the ranks! We march in steadfast column,
In wavering lines yet forming more and more;
Men, women, children, sombre, silent, solemn,
Rank follows rank like billows to the shore.
Dawnwards we tramp, towards the hills and light.
On, on and up, the Army of the Night!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0011010111 01010010101 11110111 1000011 1011000101 0101010101 01010111110 11110001011 11011001010 010111101 1101110111 0101010101 1101110110 01001110101 1101011010 1101110101 111010101 1101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 821 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 647 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 142 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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