Analysis of Sunset on the Spire
Elinor Morton Wylie 1885 (Somerville, New Jersey) – 1928 (New York City, New York)
All that I dream
By day or night
Lives in that stream
Of lovely light.
Here is the earth,
And there is the spire;
This is my hearth,
And that is my fire.
From the sun's dome
I am shouted proof
That this is my home,
And that is my roof.
Here is my food,
And here is my drink,
And I am wooed
From the moon's brink.
And the days go over,
And the nights end;
Here is my lover,
Here is my friend.
All that I
Can ever ask
Wears that sky
Like a thin gold mask.
Scheme | ABABCDEFGHGHIJIJFKFKLMLM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 1111 1011 1101 1101 01101 1111 011110 1011 11101 11111 01111 1111 01111 0111 1011 001110 0011 11110 1111 111 1101 111 10111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 461 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 338 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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