Analysis of The Sunset, Woven Of Soft Lights
Katharine Lee Bates 1859 (Falmouth) – 1929 (Wellesley)
THE sunset, woven of soft lights
And tender colors, lingers late,
As looking back on all day's dreary plights,
Compassionate;
— The foolish day of hopes so high,
Who counts her hours by blunders now,
Yet wears at last this jewel-crown of sky
Upon her brow.
Out to eternity she goes,
Not for her failure scorned, but see!
Our poor day flushed with beauty, one more rose
On God's rose-tree.
Scheme | ABACDEDEFGFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0110111 01010101 1101111101 0100 01011111 110101101 1111110111 0101 11010011 11010111 10111110111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 387 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 301 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 70 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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