Analysis of Night Thought
Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant 1864 (Bridgwater, Somerset) – 1902 (Pretoria)
The world around is sleeping,
The stars are bright o'erhead,
The shades of myalls weeping
Upon the sward are spread;
Among the gloomy pinetops
The fitful breezes blow,
And their murmurs seem the music
Of a song of long ago;
Soft, passionate, and wailing
Is the tender old refrain -
With a yearning unavailing -
"Will he no come back again?"
The camp-fire sparks are flying
Up from the pine-log's glow,
The wandering wind is sighing
That ballad sweet and low;
The drooping branches gleaming
In the firelight, sway and stir;
And the bushman's brain is dreaming
Of the song she sang, and her.
And the murmurs of the forest
Ring home to heart and brain,
As in the pine is chorused
"Wi11 he no come back again?"
Scheme | ABABXCXCADAE ACACAFAFBDBE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101110 01111 011110 010111 010101 010101 01101010 1011101 1100010 1010101 1010010 1111101 01101110 110111 01001110 110101 0101010 001101 0011110 1011100 00101010 111101 100111 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 738 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 12 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 276 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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