Analysis of Summer Sanctuary
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Not upon the crowded beaches
Where the sun beats fierce and hot;
Not upon the river reaches
In a shady silvan spot;
But in some deep mountain valley,
'Mid the sassafras and fern,
Here's the place where I would dally
When the suns of Summer burn.
Here the sifted sunlight dappling
Carpets with translucent green,
Flecks and flirts on fern and sapling,
Where the cold stream peeps between.
'Here,' you muse, 'since time's beginning,
Foot of man has never known;
Mine the joy first to be winning
All this beauty for my own.'
'Here,' you muse, 'is safe seclusion
Known alone to bee and bird,
From the rude unsought intrusion
Of the common human herd.' . . .
Then a lipstick grossly gleaming,
And a half-smoked fag you see;
And you waken from your dreaming
As a shrill voice yells 'Coo-ee!'
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFEGEG HIHIECEC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101010 1011101 10101010 001011 10111010 101001 10111110 1011101 101011 1010101 10111010 1011101 11111010 1111101 10111110 1110111 11111010 1011101 1011010 1010101 1011010 0011111 01101110 1011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 770 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 202 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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