Analysis of Music
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
Down the quiet eve,
Thro' my window with the sunset
Pipes to me a distant organ
Foolish ditties;
And, as when you change
Pictures in a magic lantern,
Books, beds, bottles, floor, and ceiling
Fade and vanish,
And I'm well once more . . .
August flares adust and torrid,
But my heart is full of April
Sap and sweetness.
In the quiet eve
I am loitering, longing, dreaming . . .
Dreaming, and a distant organ
Pipes me ditties.
I can see the shop,
I can smell the sprinkled pavement,
Where she serves-her chestnut chignon
Thrills my senses!
O, the sight and scent,
Wistful eve and perfumed pavement!
In the distance pipes an organ . . .
The sensation
Comes to me anew,
And my spirit for a moment
Thro' the music breathes the blessed
Airs of London.
Scheme | AXBC XXDX XXXX ADBC XEBX XEBB XEXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 1110101 11101010 1010 01111 10001010 11101010 1010 01111 1011010 11111110 1010 00101 111001010 10001010 1110 11101 11101010 111011 1110 10101 10100110 00101110 0010 11101 01101010 1010101 1110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 724 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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