Analysis of A Late Lark Twitters From The Quiet Skies
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
the quiet skies:
And from the west,
Where the sun, his day's work ended,
Lingers as in content,
There falls on the old, gray city
An influence luminous and serene,
A shining peace.
The smoke ascends
In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires
Shine and are changed. In the valley
Shadows rise. The lark sings on. The sun,
Closing his benediction,
Sinks, and the darkening air
Thrills with a sense of the triumphing night-
Night with her train of stars
And her great gift of sleep.
So be my passing!
My task accomplish'd and the long day done,
My wages taken, and in my heart
Some late lark singing,
Let me be gather'd to the quiet west,
The sundown splendid and serene,
Death.
Scheme | XAXXBCX XXBDDXXXX EDXEACX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101 0101 10111110 101010 11101110 1100100001 0101 0101 0010010101 10110010 11011101 101010 1001001 11011011 110111 001111 11110 1101000111 110100011 11110 1111010101 0110001 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 656 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 9, 7 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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