Analysis of From A Window In Princes Street

William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)



Above the Crags that fade and gloom
Starts the bare knee of Arthur's Seat;
Ridged high against the evening bloom,
The Old Town rises, street on street;
With lamps bejewelled, straight ahead,
Like rampired walls the houses lean,
All spired and domed and turreted,
Sheer to the valley's darkling green;
Ranged in mysterious disarray,
The Castle, menacing and austere,
Looms through the lingering last of day;
And in the silver dusk you hear,
Reverberated from crag and scar,
Bold bugles blowing points of war.


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Poetic Form
Metre 01011101 10111101 11010101 01110111 111101 1110101 110101 1101011 10010001 010100001 110100111 00010111 01001101 11010111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 502
Words 86
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 406
Words per stanza (avg) 84
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley was an English poet, critic and editor, best remembered for his 1875 poem "Invictus". more…

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