Analysis of Thunder At Night
Robert Graves 1895 (Wimbledon) – 1985 (Deià)
Restless and hot two children lay
Plagued with uneasy dreams,
Each wandered lonely through false day
A twilight torn with screams.
True to the bed-time story, Ben
Pursued his wounded bear,
Ann dreamed of chattering monkey men,
Of snakes twined in her hair...
Now high aloft above the town
The thick clouds gather and break,
A flash, a roar, and rain drives down:
Aghast the young things wake.
Trembling for what their terror was,
Surprised by instant doom,
With lightning in the looking glass,
Thunder that rocks the room.
The monkeys' paws patter again,
Snakes hiss and flash their eyes:
The bear roars out in hideous pain:
Ann prays: her brother cries.
They cannot guess, could not be told
How soon comes careless day,
With birds and dandelion gold,
Wet grass, cool scents of May.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF XGXG CHXH IAIA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 10011101 110101 11010111 01111 11011101 011101 111100101 111001 11010101 0111001 01010111 010111 100111101 011101 11000101 101101 01011001 110111 011101001 110101 11011111 111101 1101001 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 767 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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