Analysis of Tenebrae
Emile Verhaeren 1855 (Sint-Amands) – 1916 (Rouen)
A moon, with vacant, chilling eye, stares
At the winter, enthroned vast and white upon the hard ground;
The night is an entire and translucent azure;
The wind, a blade of sudden presence, stabs.
Far away, on the skylines, the long pathways of frost,
Seen, in the distance, to pierce the expanses,
And stars of gold, suspended to the zenith,
Always higher, amid the ether, to rend the blue of the sky.
The villages crouched in the plains of Flanders,
Near the rivers, the heather, and the great forests,
Between two pale infinities, shiver with cold,
Huddled near old hearthsides, where they stir the ashes.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101011 1010110101011 0111010001010 0101110101 10110101111 10010110010 01110101010 110010101101101 01001001110 101001000110 011111011 10111111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 603 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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