Analysis of Isolation.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
He came by unknown ways, and stood
At evening in the fading wood,
Which when the glowing hills were gone
Would as in a dream murmur on,
As he beside his camp-fire's glare
Sat as if in a vision there,
And felt the silence like a thing
In which his soul was functioning.
He was a poet maybe who
The world's impression dreamy drew
From his own heart in that strange air,
Like one who had been everywhere
And with the stars and fire-lit trees
Did blend a thousand memories,
Making that speck of light his home
Until the dewy dawn should come.
He well had seemed a phantom at
Some mystic work as lone he sat
Within his ring of charméd light,
Who might step out into the night,
And in a mischief-making mood
Perturb the starry solitude
Until his fire burnt out, and then
Might creep back to his camp again,
And wrapped within his blanket be
A thought-deserted entity.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101101 11000101 11010101 11001101 110111101 11100101 01010101 01111100 11010101 01010101 11110111 1111110 010101011 11010100 10111111 01010111 11110101 11011111 01111111 11110101 00010101 0101010 011101101 11111101 01011101 01010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 845 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 680 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 162 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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