Analysis of Midnight’s Hour
Jeremy Taylor 1613 – 1667 (Lisburn)
Feathers of time now - Dance; dance upon,
Hearing the chimes of the clocks hand
Midnight; a ghostly light;
Forbidden in the depths of immortal fear
Chime, chiming hands move
Heartbeats now thump - As a cold hand, I now feel!
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101111101 10011011 10101 10000110101 1111 1111011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 219 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 175 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on September 05, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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