Analysis of When day is over
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
When day is over
I climb up the stair,
Take off my dark dress,
Pull down my hair,
Open my window
And look at the stars.
Then my heart breaks through
These prison bars
Of space and darkness
And finds what is true,
Up past the stars where
I'm one with you.
Scheme | ABCBDEFEGFBF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 11101 11111 1111 10110 01101 11111 1101 11010 01111 11011 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 262 |
Words | 54 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 196 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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