Analysis of The Three Witches
Ernest Christopher Dowson 1867 – 1900
All the moon-shed nights are over,
And the days of gray and dun;
There is neither may nor clover,
And the day and night are one.
Not an hamlet, not a city
Meets our strained and tearless eyes;
In the plain without a pity,
Where the wan grass droops and dies.
We shall wander through the meaning
Of a day and see no light,
For our lichened arms are leaning
On the ends of endless night.
We, the children of Astarte,
Dear abortions of the moon,
In a gay and silent party,
We are riding to you soon.
Burning ramparts, ever burning!
To the flame which never dies
We are yearning, yearning, yearning,
With our gay and tearless eyes.
In the plain without a pity,
(Not an hamlet, not a city)
Where the wan grass droops and dies.
Scheme | abab CdCD efef cgcg eded CCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111110 0011101 11101110 0010111 11101010 1101011 00101010 1011101 11101010 1010111 11011110 1011101 101011 1010101 00101010 1110111 1011010 1011101 11101010 1101011 00101010 11101010 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 707 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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