Analysis of Morning
Emma Lazarus 1849 (New York City) – 1887 (New York City)
GRAY-VESTED Dawn, with flameless, tranquil eye,
Cool hands, and dewy lips, is in the sky,
A sober nun, with starry rosary.
With eyes downcast and with uplifted palm,
She seems to whisper now her silent psalm;
Beneath her gaze the sleeping earth is calm.
Her prayer is ended, and she riseth slow,
And o'er the hills she quietly doth go,
Noiseless and gentle as the midnight snow.
Then suddenly the pale-east blushes red,
The flowers to see upraise a sleepy head,
The rosy colors deepen, grow, and spread.
A cool breeze whispers: 'She is coming now!'
And then the radiant colors burn and glow,
The white cast blushes over cheek and brow,
And glorious on the hills the Morning stands,
Her saffron hair back-blown from rosy bands,
And light and joy and fragrance in her hands.
Her foot has touched the hill-tops, and they shine;
She comes,— the willow rustles and the pine;
She smiles upon the fields a smile divine,
And all the earth smiles back; from mount to vale,
From oak to shuddering grass, from glen to dale,
Wet fields and flowers and glistening brooks cry 'Hail!'
Scheme | AAX BXB CCC DDD ECE FFF GGG HHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111101 1101011001 0101110100 111011001 1111010101 0101010111 011100111 01001110011 10101011 1100011101 0101110101 0101010101 0111011101 01010010101 0111010101 01001010101 0101111101 0101010001 0111011011 11011001 1101010101 0101111111 11110011111 110100100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,056 |
Words | 194 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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