Analysis of Night
Francis William Bourdillon 1852 (Runcorn) – 1921
The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies,
When love is done.
| Scheme | ABAB ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 0110101 00111 10110111 10101 0110101 00111 10110111 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 219 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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