Analysis of The Sundowner.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
So He will at the last, too, gather all,
As in the bush a traveller for his fire
Sticks and dry leaves, as eerie the light fades;
Till from those sticks and leaves there comes a flame,
Beside which in a weird infinity
The man will sit and gather lonely thoughts.
So He will at the last, too, gather all,
The great Sundowner in a painless sphere.
| Scheme | AbcdefAg |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011101 100101001110 1011110011 1111011101 0110010100 0111010101 1111011101 01100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 346 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| 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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