Analysis of A Winter's Night
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
The pale moon shining from a pallid sky
Lit half the street, and over half she laid
Her folded mantle; through the dark-browed shade
White windows glittered, each a watchful eye.
The dim wet pavement lit irregularly
With shimmering streaks of gaslight, faint and frayed,
Shone luminous green where sheets of glass displayed
Long breadths of faded blinds mechanically.
the night was very still; above, below,
No sound, no breath, no change in anything;
Only, across the squares of damp lit street,
Shooting a mocking double from his feet,
With vague uncertain steps went to and fro
A solitary shadow wandering.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111010101 1101010111 0101010111 1101010101 01110101000 11001110101 11001111101 1111010100 0111010101 111111010 1001011111 1001010111 1101011101 01001100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 605 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 246 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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