Analysis of The Truce of Night
Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)
Lo, it is dark,
Save for the crystal spark
Of a virgin star o'er the purpling lea,
Or the fine, keen, silvery grace of a young
Moon that is hung
O'er the priest-like firs by the sea;
Lo, it is still,
Save for the wind of the hill,
And the luring, primeval sounds that fill
The moist and scented air
'Tis the truce o' night, away with unrest and care!
Now we may forget
Love's fever and hate's fret,
Forget to-morrow and yesterday;
And the hopes we buried in musky gloom
Will come out of their tomb,
Warm and poignant and gay;
We may wander wide,
With only a wish for a guide,
By heath and pool where the Little Folk bide,
We may share in fairy mirth,
And partake once more in the happy thoughts of earth.
Lo, we may rest
Here on her cradling breast
In the wonderful time of the truce o' night,
And sweet things that happened long ago,
Softly and slow,
Will creep back to us in delight;
And our dreams may be
Compact of young melody,
Just such as under the Eden Tree,
'Mid the seraphim's lullabies,
Eve's might have been ere banished from Paradise.
Scheme | AABCCBDDDEE FFGHHGIIIJJ KKLMMLBBBXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 110101 1010110011 10111001101 1111 100111101 1111 1101101 0010010111 010101 101110110101 11101 110011 01110010 0011100101 111111 101001 11101 11001101 1101101011 1110101 001110010111 1111 1101001 00100110111 011110101 1001 11111001 010111 1011100 111100101 10110 1111110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,047 |
Words | 203 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 11, 11 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 268 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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