Analysis of In Memoriam A. H. H.: 72. Risest thou thus, dim dawn, again
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
Risest thou thus, dim dawn, again,
And howlest, issuing out of night,
With blasts that blow the poplar white,
And lash with storm the streaming pane?
Day, when my crown'd estate begun
To pine in that reverse of doom,
Which sicken'd every living bloom,
And blurr'd the splendour of the sun;
Who usherest in the dolorous hour
With thy quick tears that make the rose
Pull sideways, and the daisy close
Her crimson fringes to the shower;
Who might'st have heaved a windless flame
Up the deep East, or, whispering, play'd
A chequer-work of beam and shade
Along the hills, yet look'd the same.
As wan, as chill, as wild as now;
Day, mark'd as with some hideous crime,
When the dark hand struck down thro' time,
And cancell'd nature's best: but thou,
Lift as thou may'st thy burthen'd brows
Thro' clouds that drench the morning star,
And whirl the ungarner'd sheaf afar,
And sow the sky with flying boughs,
And up thy vault with roaring sound
Climb thy thick noon, disastrous day;
Touch thy dull goal of joyless gray,
And hide thy shame beneath the ground.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 01100111 11110101 01110101 11110101 11010111 110100101 0101101 1100110 11111101 1100101 010101010 11111011 101111001 0111101 01011101 11111111 111111001 10111111 01010111 11111111 11110101 0101101 01011101 01111101 11110101 1111111 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,175 |
Words | 189 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 163 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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