Analysis of Sunset In San Diego
Joaquin Miller 1837 (Indiana) – 1913 (Oakland)
The city sits amid her palms;
The perfume of her twilight breath
Is something as the sacred balms
That bound sweet Jesus after death,
Such soft, warm twilight sense as lie
Against the gates of Paradise.
Such prayerful palms, wide palms upreached!
This sea mist is as incense smoke,
Yon ancient walls a sermon preached,
White lily with a heart of oak.
And O, this twilight! O the grace
Of twilight on my lifted face.
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Metre | 01010101 0011011 11010101 11110101 1111111 0101110 1101111 11111011 11010101 11010111 0111101 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 404 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 329 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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