Analysis of Rondel.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
The mist is in the town to-night,
And all the streets are dumb and drear;
The passers-by as ghosts appear,
Or things whose souls have taken flight
As they drift by in the weird light,
Each on its shadowy career —
The mist is in the town to-night,
And all the streets are dumb and drear.
A dead town were less sad a sight
With its dead men and women here,
So one might see them passing near
Beyond the death of love's delight!
The mist is in the town to-night,
And all the streets are dumb and drear.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01100111 01011101 01011101 11111101 11110011 11110001 01100111 01011101 01101101 11110101 11111101 01011101 01100111 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 496 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 385 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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