Analysis of The Night Vigil
Jerry Lovelady 1954 (Texas)
Swaddled in swank serenity
the sleepy twilight world
gives birth to another
quintessential day
damp and dripping
with morning's birth waters.
The wild rooster sentry vainly
tries to wake the napping sun.
He signals the frogs
and crickets to silence
their long vigils over at last.
| Scheme | AXXXXX AXXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010100 01011 111010 0101 1010 110110 01101010 1110101 11001 010110 11101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 282 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
Birth of day poem, literary style popular in the 18th and 19th century poets of Europe. This one is without all the "thees and thous", and abrupt contractions so common in that kind of poetry.
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Written on November 10, 2021
Submitted by Texaspoetish67 on November 10, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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