Analysis of Twilight on Sixth Avenue at Ninth Street
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts 1860 (Douglas) – 1943 (Toronto)
Over the tops of the houses
Twilight and sunset meet.
The green, diaphanous dusk
Sinks to the eager street.
Astray in the tangle of roofs
Wanders a wind of June.
The dial shines in the clock-tower
Like the face of a strange-scrawled moon.
The narrowing lines of the houses
Palely begin to gleam,
And the hurrying crowds fade softly
Like an army in a dream.
Above the vanishing faces
A phantom train flares on
With a voice that shakes the shadows, --
Diminishes, and is gone.
And I walk with the journeying throng
In such a solitude
As where a lonely ocean
Washes a lonely wood.
Scheme | ABXB XCXC ADXD AXXX XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 10011010 1011 0101001 110101 01001011 100111 010100110 10110111 010011010 10111 001001110 1110001 01010010 010111 1011101 0100011 011101001 01010 1101010 100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 679 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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