Analysis of Nippon
Alfred Noyes 1880 (Wolverhampton) – 1958 (Isle of Wight)
Last night, I dreamed of Nippon....
I saw a cloud of white
Drifting before the sunset
On seas of opal light.
Beyond the wide Pacific
I saw its mounded snow
Miraculously changing
In that deep evening glow,
To rosy rifts and hillocks,
To orchards that I knew,
To snows of peach and cherry,
And feathers of bamboo.
I saw, on twisted bridges,
In blue and crimson gleams,
The lanterns of the fishers,
Along the brook of dreams.
I saw the wreaths of incense
Like little ghosts arise,
From temples under Fuji,
From Fuji to the skies.
I saw that fairy mountain....
I watched it form and fade.
No doubt the gods were singing,
When Nippon isle was made.
Scheme | XAXA XBCB DEFE DDDD DDFD XGCG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111111 110111 100101 111101 0101010 11111 0100010 011101 110101 110111 1111010 010101 1111010 010101 0101010 010111 1101101 110101 1101010 110101 1111010 111101 1101010 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 628 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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