Analysis of Summer Dawn

William Morris 1834 (Walthamstow) – 1896 (London)



Pray but one prayer for me 'twixt thy closed lips,
Think but one thought of me up in the stars.
The summer night waneth, the morning light slips,
Faint and grey 'twixt the leaves of the aspen, betwixt the cloud-bars
That are patiently waiting there for the dawn:
Patient and colourless, though Heaven's gold
Waits to float through them along with the sun.
Far out in the meadows, above the young corn,
The heavy elms wait, and restless and cold
The uneasy wind rises; the roses are dun;
Through the long twilight they pray for the dawn,
Round the lone house in the midst of the corn,
Speak but one word to me over the corn,
Over the tender, bow'd locks of the corn.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111111111 1111111001 0101101011 101101101001011 11100101101 10011101 1111101101 1100101011 0101101001 001011001011 101111101 1011001101 1111111001 1001011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 673
Words 126
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 519
Words per stanza (avg) 124
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 21, 2023

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William Morris

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