Analysis of Night On Our Lives

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)



Night on our lives, ah me, how surely has it fallen!
Be they who can deceived. I dare not look before.
See, sad years, to your own; your little wealth long hoarded,
How sore it was to win, how soon it perished all!
Beauty, the one face loved, the pure eyes mine so worshipped,
So true, so touching once, so tender in their dreams!
Find me that hour again. I yield the rest uncounted,
Urns for the dust of time, divine in her sole tears.
--Unseen one! Unforgotten! Oh, if your eyes behold it
By chance, this page revealed which trembling hides your name,
Merged in the ultimate wreck of fame and meaner joys!
Co--partner be with me in this my soul's last sorrow,
Pearl of my hidden life, this grief, that not again
Unspoiled love's rose shall blow, the dear love which was ours.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11101111101110 111101111101 1111111101110 111111111101 1001110111110 111101110011 1111001110110 110111010011 01111111011 1111011100111 1001001110101 1101110111110 111101111101 0111110111110
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 772
Words 147
Sentences 12
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 43
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 595
Words per stanza (avg) 145
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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