Analysis of Ichabod
Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894
Gone is the glory from the hills,
The autumn sunshine from the mere,
Which mourns for the declining year
In all her tributary rills.
A sense of change obscurely chills
The misty twilight atmosphere,
In which familiar things appear
Like alien ghosts, foreboding ills.
The twilight hour a month ago
Was full of pleasant warmth and ease,
The pearl of all the twenty-four.
Erelong the winter gales shall blow,
Erelong the winter frosts shall freeze -
And oh, that it were June once more!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 0101101 11100101 0101001 011111 010110 01010101 110010101 01100101 11110101 01110101 1010111 1010111 01110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 478 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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