Analysis of The Ghost
Walter de la Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
Peace in thy hands,
Peace in thine eyes,
Peace on thy brow;
Flower of a moment in the eternal hour,
Peace with me now.
Not a wave breaks,
Not a bird calls,
My heart, like a sea,
Silent after a storm that hath died,
Sleeps within me.
All the night's dews,
All the world's leaves,
All winter's snow
Seem with their quiet to have stilled in life's dream
All sorrowing now.
| Scheme | XXAXA XXBXB XXXXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 1011 1011 1111 1010100001010 1111 1011 1011 11101 101001111 1011 1011 1011 1101 11110111011 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 377 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 18, 2023
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