Analysis of A.D. 19—?
Arthur Henry Adams 1872 (Lawrence) – 1936 (Sydney, New South Wales)
AS in some quiet city bathed in sleep,
Where like a kiss the twilight lingereth,
When suddenly the earth stirs far beneath—
Just moves, then pauses—and a silence deep
Falls on all ere the second shock should sweep
Spire, column, pinnacle to shapeless death!
And white face peers at white face, and no breath
Is drawn, and every heart forgets to leap!
So now across this quiet, dreaming world
The first faint shock has thrilled; and men, aghast,
Wait for the second, whose blind forces pent
Shall in one last convulsion find their vent;
And all the builded fabrics of the past
Shall be in ruins on their builders hurled.
Scheme | ABBAABBACDEEDC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010101 1101011 1100011101 1111000101 1111010111 1101001101 0111111011 11010010111 1101110101 0111110101 1101011101 1011010111 010110101 1101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 646 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 492 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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