Analysis of The Moonlit Room
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
I know a room that's dark in daytime hours;
No sunbeams light it,
Whether in months of gloom or months of flowers,
So people slight it.
Yet in the noon of each succeeding night
The moon shines in it,
Goldenly waking dreamers to delight
For a love's minute.
In a dream light, they sigh and burn and kiss
And fall to slumber
Deeply once more. Thus bliss is piled on bliss
In goodly number.
Praise first is giv'n to sunshine and to rooms
Sunbright, with reason.
Yet a wise man should choose a moonlit room
In his blood's season.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110110 1111 10011111110 11011 1001110101 01101 11010101 10110 0011110101 01110 1011111111 01010 111111011 1110 101111011 01110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 533 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 411 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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