Analysis of The Sun Has Long Been Set
The sun has long been set,
The stars are out by twos and threes,
The little birds are piping yet
Among the bushes and the trees;
There's a cuckoo, and one or two thrushes,
And a far-off wind that rushes,
And a sound of water that gushes,
And the cuckoo's sovereign cry
Fills all the hollow of the sky.
Who would go `parading'
In London, `and masquerading',
On such a night of June
With that beautiful soft half-moon,
And all these innocent blisses?
On such a night as this is!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011111 01111101 01011101 01010001 101011110 00111110 001110110 0010101 11010101 1111 0101010 110111 11100111 0111001 1101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 470 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 368 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 90 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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