Analysis of Twilight and I Went Hand in Hand
Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)
Twilight and I went hand in hand,
As lovers walk in shining Mays,
O'er musky, memory-haunted ways,
Across a lonely harvest-land,
Where west winds chanted in the wheat
An old, old vesper wondrous sweet.
Oh, Twilight was a comrade rare
For gypsy heath or templed grove,
In her gray vesture, shadow-wove;
I saw the darkness of her hair
Faint-mirrored in a field-pool dim,
As we stood tip-toe on its rim.
We went as lightly as on wings
Through many a scented chamber fair,
Among the pines and balsams, where
I could have dreamed of darling things,
And ever as we went I knew
The peeping fairy folk went too.
I could have lingered now and then
By gates of moonrise that might lead
To some forgotten, spiceried mead,
Or in some mossy, cloistered glen,
Where silence, very still and deep,
Seemed fallen in enchanted sleep.
But Twilight ever led me on,
As lovers walk, until we came
To hills where sunset's shaken flame
Had paled to ashes dead and wan;
And there, with footsteps stolen-light
She left me to the lure of night.
Scheme | ABBACC DEEDFF GDDGHH IXXIJJ KLLKMM |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1011101 11010101 1010100101 01010101 11110001 11110101 111011 1101111 001111 11010101 11000111 11111111 11110111 110010101 0101011 11111101 01011111 01010111 11110101 1111111 1101011 1011101 11010101 11000101 1110111 11010111 1111101 11110101 0111101 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,023 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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