Analysis of The Lark's Song
Anne Glenny Wilson 1848 (Greenvale, Victoria) – 1930 (Lethenty)
The morning is wild and dark,
The night mist runs on the vale,
Bright Lucifer dies to a spark,
And the wind whistles up for a gale.
And stormy the day may be
That breaks through its prison bars,
But it brings no regret to me,
For I sing at the door of the stars!
Along the dim ocean-verge
I see the ships labouring on;
They rise on the lifting surge
One moment, and they are gone.
I see on the twilight plain
The flash of the flying cars;
Men travail in joy or pain -
But I sing at the door of the stars!
I see the green, sleeping world,
The pastures all glazed with rime;
The smoke from the chimney curled;
I hear the faint church bells chime.
I see the grey mountain crest,
The slopes, and the forest spars,
With the dying moon on their breast -
While I sing at the door of the stars!
Scheme | ABABCDCD EXEXFDFD GHGHIDID |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101101 0111101 11001101 001101101 0100111 1111101 11110111 111101101 0101101 110111 1110101 1100111 111011 0110101 1010111 111101101 1101101 0101111 0110101 1101111 1101101 0100101 10101111 111101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 771 |
Words | 161 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 201 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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