Analysis of By A Grave
Arthur Sherburne Hardy 1847 (Andover) – 1930 (Woodstock)
Oft have I stood within the carven door
Of some cathedral at the close of the day,
And seen its softened splendors fade away
From lucent pane and tessellated floor,
As if a parting guest who comes no more,
Till over all silence and blackness lay,
Then rose sweet murmurings of them that pray,
And shone the altar lamps unseen before,
So, Dear, as here I stand with thee alone,
The voices of the world sound faint and far,
The glare and glory of the moon grow dim,
And in the stillness, what I had not known,
I know, a light, pure shining as a star,
A song, uprising like a holy hymn.
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Metre | 111101011 11010101101 011101101 1101011 1101011111 1101100101 11111111 0101010101 1111111101 0101011101 0101010111 0001011111 1101110101 0101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 570 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 453 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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