Analysis of Noonday Hills.

Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)



The silent blue haze in the noonday hills
Is deep with glory, as the very air
Were an alembic.


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 010110011 1111010101 011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 100
Words 21
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 74
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Crawford

Robert Crawford FRSE FBA is a Scottish poet, scholar and critic. He is currently Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.  more…

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