Analysis of A Song Of Eternity In Time
Sidney Lanier 1842 (Macon) – 1881 (Lynn)
Once, at night, in the manor wood
My Love and I long silent stood,
Amazed that any heavens could
Decree to part us, bitterly repining.
My Love, in aimless love and grief,
Reached forth and drew aside a leaf
That just above us played the thief
And stole our starlight that for us was shining.
A star that had remarked her pain
Shone straightway down that leafy lane,
And wrought his image, mirror-plain,
Within a tear that on her lash hung gleaming.
"Thus Time," I cried, "is but a tear
Some one hath wept 'twixt hope and fear,
Yet in his little lucent sphere
Our star of stars, Eternity, is beaming."
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Metre | 11100101 11011101 01110101 011111001 11010101 11010101 11011101 01101111110 01110101 1111101 01110101 01011101110 11111101 11111101 10110101 101110100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 626 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 233 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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