Analysis of Child of Dawn
Harold Monro 1879 (Brussels) – 1932
O gentle vision in the dawn:
My spirit over faint cool water glides,
Child of the day,
To thee;
And thou art drawn
By kindred impulse over silver tides
The dreamy way
To me.
I need thy hands, O gentle wonder-child,
For they are moulded unto all repose;
Thy lips are frail,
And thou art cooler than an April rose;
White are thy words and mild:
Child of the morning, hail!
Breathe thus upon mine eyelids -- that we twain
May build the day together out of dreams.
Life, with thy breath upon my eyelids, seems
Exquisite to the utmost bounds of pain.
I cannot live, except as I may be
Compelled for love of thee.
O let us drift,
Frail as the floating silver of a star,
Or like the summer humming of a bee,
Or stream-reflected sunlight through a rift.
I will not hope, because I know, alas,
Morning will glide, and noon, and then the night
Will take thee from me. Everything must pass
Swiftly -- but nought so swift as dawn-delight.
If I could hold thee till the day,
Is broad on sea and hill,
Child of repose,
What god can say,
What god or mortal knows,
What dream thou mightest not in me fulfil?
O gentle vision in the dawn:
My spirit over faint cool water glides,
Child of the day,
To thee;
And thou art drawn
By kindred impulse over silver tides
The dreamy way
To me.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010001 1101011101 1101 11 0111 1101010101 0101 11 1111110101 111110101 1111 0111011101 111101 110101 110111111 1101010111 111101111 100101111 1101011111 011111 1111 1101010101 1101010101 110101101 1111011101 1011010101 111111011 1011111101 11111101 111101 1101 1111 111101 11111011 11010001 1101011101 1101 11 0111 1101010101 0101 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,273 |
Words | 245 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6, 10, 10, 8 |
Lines Amount | 42 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 195 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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