Analysis of Late Autumn
William Allingham 1824 (Ballyshannon) – 1889 (Hampstead)
October - and the skies are cool and gray
O'er stubbles emptied of their latest sheaf,
Bare meadow, and the slowly falling leaf.
The dignity of woods in rich decay
Accords full well with this majestic grief
That clothes our solemn purple hills to-day,
Whose afternoon is hush'd, and wintry brief
Only a robin sings from any spray.
And night sends up her pale cold moon, and spills
White mist around the hollows of the hills,
Phantoms of firth or lake; the peasant sees
His cot and stockyard, with the homestead trees,
Islanded; but no foolish terror thrills
His perfect harvesting; he sleeps at ease.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100011101 1011011101 110010101 0100110101 0111110101 11101010111 101110101 1001011101 0111011101 1101010101 1011110101 11011011 11110101 1011001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 605 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 239 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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