Analysis of Summer Midnight
Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant 1864 (Bridgwater, Somerset) – 1902 (Pretoria)
Athwart the star-lit midnight sky
Luminous fleecy clouds drift by,
As the mysterious, pallid moon
Sinks in the waveless still lagoon.
Now that the queen of night is dead,
The starry commonwealth o'erhead
(Softer and fairer than gaudy day)
Sheds lustrous light from the Milky Way;
While the Dog-star gleams, and the Sisters Seven,
Float tremulously in the misty heaven.
Faintly, afar the horse-bells ring;
Myriads of wakened crickets sing;
And the spirit voices of the night
Sing snatches of fairy music bright,
Old-world melodies - lang syne sung -
Recalling days when the heart was young,
Whose wonderful cadences fall and rise,
As the wind in the casuarina sighs;
And the world seems 'gulfed, this summer night,
In a flood of delicious, dreamy light.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIGG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 0101111 10010111 100100101 1001101 11011111 010101 100101101 110110101 10111001010 11000001010 10010111 111101 001010101 110110101 11100111 010110111 1100100101 1010011 001111101 0011010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 761 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 599 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 125 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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