Analysis of The Shadow Of Dawn
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
The shadow of Dawn;
Stillness and stars and over-mastering dreams
Of Life and Death and Sleep;
Heard over gleaming flats, the old, unchanging sound
Of the old, unchanging Sea.
My soul and yours -
O, hand in hand let us fare forth, two ghosts,
Into the ghostliness,
The infinite and abounding solitudes,
Beyond--O, beyond!--beyond . . .
Here in the porch
Upon the multitudinous silences
Of the kingdoms of the grave,
We twain are you and I--two ghosts Omnipotence
Can touch no more . . . no more!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111 10010101001 110101 110101010101 1010101 1101 1101111111 0101 010000101 0110101 1001 0101100 1010101 111101110100 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 489 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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