Analysis of Halcyon Days
Thomas Shadwell 1642 (Weeting or Lynford, Norfolk) – 1692 (London)
Halcyon days, now wars are ending.
You shall find where-e'er you sail
Tritons all the while attending
With a kind and gentle gale.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 100111110 11111011 1101010 1010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 138 |
| Words | 25 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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