Analysis of Schoolgirls Hastening
John Shaw Neilson 1872 (Penola, South Australia) – 1942 (Melbourne, Victoria)
Fear it has faded and the night:
The bells all peal the hour of nine:
The schoolgirls hastening through the light
Touch the unknowable Divine.
What leavening in my heart would bide!
Full dreams a thousand deep are there:
All luminants succumb beside
The unbound melody of hair.
Joy the long timorous takes the flute:
Valiant with colour songs are born:
Love the impatient absolute
Lives as a Saviour in the morn
Get thou behind me Shadow-Death!
Oh ye Eternities delay!
Morning is with me and the breath
Of schoolgirls hastening down the way.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 11110001 011101011 01100101 10010001 110001111 11010111 110101 00110011 101100101 1011111 1001010 1101001 1101111 11101 10111001 11100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 563 |
| Words | 96 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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