Analysis of Alla Dogana
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
Night, and the silence of the night,
In Venice; far away, a song;
As if the lyric water made
Itself a serenade;
As if the water's silence were a song
Sent up into the night.
Night, a more perfect day,
A day of shadows luminous,
Water and sky at one, at one with us;
As if the very peace of night,
The older peace than heaven or light,
Came down into the day.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010101 01010101 11010101 01001 1101010001 110101 101011 0111100 1001111111 11010111 010111011 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 356 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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