Analysis of You, Andrew Marvell
Archibald MacLeish 1892 (Glencoe) – 1982 (Boston)
And here face down beneath the sun
And here upon earth's noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night:
To feel creep up the curving east
The earthy chill of dusk and slow
Upon those under lands the vast
And ever climbing shadow grow
And strange at Ecbatan the trees
Take leaf by leaf the evening strange
The flooding dark about their knees
The mountains over Persia change
And now at Kermanshah the gate
Dark empty and the withered grass
And through the twilight now the late
Few travelers in the westward pass
And Baghdad darken and the bridge
Across the silent river gone
And through Arabia the edge
Of evening widen and steal on
And deepen on Palmyra's street
The wheel rut in the ruined stone
And Lebanon fade out and Crete
high through the clouds and overblown
And over Sicily the air
Still flashing with the landward gulls
And loom and slowly disappear
The sails above the shadowy hulls
And Spain go under and the shore
Of Africa the gilded sand
And evening vanish and no more
The low pale light across that land
Nor now the long light on the sea:
And here face downward in the sun
To feel how swift how secretly
The shadow of the night comes on...
Scheme | ABCB XDXD EFEF GHGH XXXC IJIJ XKXK LMLM N ANC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110101 0101111 1101101 0110101 11110101 01011101 01110101 0101011 011101 11110101 01010111 01010101 011101 11000101 0101101 110000101 01010001 01010101 01010001 11010011 010111 01100101 01001101 1101001 01010001 11010101 0101001 010101001 01110001 11000101 01010011 01110111 11011101 01110001 11111100 0110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,158 |
Words | 222 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1, 3 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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