Analysis of Lemures
Richard Aldington 1892 (Portsmouth) – 1962
In Nineveh
And beyond Nineveh
In the dusk
They were afraid.
In Thebes of Egypt
In the dust
They chanted of them to the dead.
In my Lesbos and Achaia
Where the God dwelt
We knew them.
Now men say "They are not":
But in the dusk
Ere the white sun comes -
A gay child that bears a white candle -
I am afraid of their rustling,
Of their terrible silence,
The menace of their secrecy.
Scheme | AABX XXX XXX XBXXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100 001100 001 1001 01110 001 11011101 01101 1011 111 111111 1001 10111 011110110 11011110 1110010 01011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 385 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 3, 7 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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