Analysis of Autumn.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
I in the autumn of my days
Stand by a place of tears,
And hear the unborn children weep
Within the unborn years;
And feel how all God's sorrow must
Go wailing on until
Man's autumn, too, is past, and he
May winter from all ill.
* * * * *
A pale light in the fading wood,
The sob of dying leaves —
A lorn bird lying in the dusk
Of life that wakes and grieves!
O mournful heart whose love is dust,
In the decaying wood
Death's deepening mystery will cling
Round thee like solitude.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010111 110111 01011101 010111 01111101 110101 11011101 110111 1 01100101 011101 01110001 111101 11011111 000101 110010011 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 473 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 364 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 97 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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