Analysis of Sweet Silence After Bells

Christopher John Brennan 1870 (Haymarket, New South Wales) – 1932 (Lewisham, New South Wales)



Sweet silence after bells!
deep in the enamour'd ear
soft incantation dwells.

Filling the rapt still sphere
a liquid crystal swims,
precarious yet clear.

Those metal quiring hymns
shaped ether so succinct:
a while, or it dislimns,

the silence, wanly print
with forms of lingering notes,
inhabits, close. distinct;

and night, the angel, floats
on wings of blessing spread
o'er all the gather'd cotes

where meditation, wed
with love, in gold-lit cells,
absorbs the heaven that shed
sweet silence after bells.


Scheme Axa bcb cda xed efe fafA
Poetic Form
Metre 110101 10011 101101 100111 010101 010011 110101 110101 01111 01011 1111001 010101 010101 111101 1010101 10101 110111 0101011 110101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 496
Words 83
Sentences 6
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 67
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Christopher John Brennan

Christopher John Brennan was an Australian poet, scholar and literary critic. more…

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