Analysis of Summer Night
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
NOW sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:
The firefly wakens: waken thou with me.
Now droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost,
And like a ghost she glimmers on to me.
Now lies the Earth all Danaë to the stars,
And all thy heart lies open unto me.
Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves
A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.
Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,
And slips into the bosom of the lake:
So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip
Into my bosom and be lost in me.
Scheme | XXXA XA XA XA XXXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010101 1101000101 11011001001 010110111 110111101 0101110111 1101110101 0111110101 11010100101 0101011101 1101010101 0101010101 111110101 0111001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 576 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 2, 2, 4 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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