Analysis of All Night the Lone Cicada
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts 1860 (Douglas) – 1943 (Toronto)
All night the lone cicada
Kept shrilling through the rain–
A voice of joy undaunted
By unforgotten pain.
Down from the wind-blown branches
Rang out the high refrain,
By tumult undisheartened,
By storm assailed in vain.
To looming vasts of mountain
And shadowy deeps of plain,
The ephemeral, brave defiance
Adventured not in vain.
Till to the faltering spirit
And to the weary brain,
From loss and fear and failure,
My joy returned again.
| Scheme | ABXB XBAB XBXB XBXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
| Metre | 1101010 11101 0111010 111 1101110 110101 1101 110101 1101110 0100111 001001010 1101 11010010 010101 1101010 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 433 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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