Analysis of Song's End
John Howard Payne 1791 (New York City) – 1852
THE CHIME of a bell of gold
That flutters across the air,
The sound of a singing of old,
The end of a tale that is told,
Of a melody strange and fair,
of a joy that has grown despair:
For the things that have been for me
I shall never have them again;
The skies and the purple sea,
And day like a melody,
And night like a silver rain
Of stars on forest and plain.
They are shut, the gates of the day;
The night has fallen on me:
My life is a lightless way;
I sing yet, while as I may!
Some day I shall cease, maybe:
I shall live on yet, you will see.
Scheme | ABAABB CXCCDD ECEECC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0110111 1100101 01101011 01101111 10100101 10111101 10111111 11101101 0100101 0110100 0110101 1111001 11101101 0111011 111011 1111111 1111110 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 582 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 17, 2023
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