Analysis of Autumnal
Ernest Christopher Dowson 1867 – 1900
Pale amber sunlight falls across
The reddening October trees,
That hardly sway before a breeze
As soft as summer: summer's loss
Seems little, dear! on days like these.
Let misty autumn be our part!
The twilight of the year is sweet:
Where shadow and the darkness meet
Our love, a twilight of the heart
Eludes a little time's deceit.
Are we not better and at home
In dreamful Autumn, we who deem
No harvest joy is worth a dream?
A little while and night shall come,
A little while, then, let us dream.
Beyond the pearled horizons lie
Winter and night: awaiting these
We garner this poor hour of ease,
Until love turn from us and die
Beneath the drear November trees.
Scheme | ABBAB CDDCD XEEXE FBBFB |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1101101 010101 11010101 11110101 11011111 110101101 0110111 1100101 10101101 01010101 11110011 0110111 11011101 01010111 01011111 01010101 10010101 110111011 01111101 01010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 654 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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