Analysis of The Break of Day
John Shaw Neilson 1872 (Penola, South Australia) – 1942 (Melbourne, Victoria)
THE STARS are pale.
Old is the Night, his case is grievous,
His strength doth fail.
Through stilly hours
The dews have draped with love’s old lavishness
The drowsy flowers.
And Night shall die.
Already, lo! the Morn’s first ecstasies
Across the sky.
An evil time is done.
Again, as some one lost in a quaint parable,
Comes up the Sun.
Scheme | ABA CBC DBD EXE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111 110111110 1111 1110 01111111 01010 0111 01010111 0101 110111 011111001100 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 399 |
Words | 63 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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