Analysis of Check
James Stephens 1882 (Dublin) – 1950
The night was creeping on the ground;
She crept and did not make a sound
Until she reached the tree, and then
She covered it, and sole again
Along the grass beside the wall.
I heard the rustle of her shawl
As she threw blackness everywhere
Upon the sky and ground and air,
And in the room where I was hid:
But no matter what she did
To everything that was without,
She could not put my candle out.
So I stared at the night, and she
Stared back solemnly at me.
Scheme | AABBC CDDEEFF GG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110101 11011101 01110101 11010101 01010101 11010101 1111010 01010101 00011111 1110111 1101101 11111101 11110101 1110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 454 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 7, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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