Analysis of A Nocturne
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
The Moon has gone to her rest,
A full hour ago.
The Pleiads have found a nest
In the waves below.
Slow, the Hours one by one
In Midnight's footsteps creep.
Lovers who lie alone
Soon wake to weep.
Slow--footed tortoise Hours, will ye not hasten on,
Till from his prison
In the golden East
A new day shall have risen,
And the last stars be gone,
Like guests belated from a bridal feast?
When the long night is done
Then shall ye sleep.
Scheme | ABABCDEDFCGCHGCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111101 011001 0101101 00101 1010111 0111 101101 1111 1101010111101 11110 00101 0111110 001111 1101010101 101111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 426 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 335 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 84 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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