Analysis of The Sundowner.

Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)



So He will at the last, too, gather all,
As in the bush a traveller for his fire
Sticks and dry leaves, as eerie the light fades;
Till from those sticks and leaves there comes a flame,
Beside which in a weird infinity
The man will sit and gather lonely thoughts.
So He will at the last, too, gather all,
The great Sundowner in a painless sphere.


Scheme AbcdefAg
Poetic Form
Metre 1111011101 100101001110 1011110011 1111011101 0110010100 0111010101 1111011101 01100101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 346
Words 69
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 268
Words per stanza (avg) 67
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Crawford

Robert Crawford FRSE FBA is a Scottish poet, scholar and critic. He is currently Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.  more…

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