Analysis of The Day Of Days
William Morris 1834 (Walthamstow) – 1896 (London)
Each eve earth falleth down the dark,
As though its hope were o’er;
Yet lurks the sun when day is done
Behind to-morrow’s door.
Grey grows the dawn while men-folk sleep,
Unseen spreads on the light,
Till the thrush sings to the coloured things,
And earth forgets the night.
No otherwise wends on our Hope:
E’en as a tale that’s told
Are fair lives lost, and all the cost
Of wise and true and bold.
We’ve toiled and failed; we spake the word;
None hearkened; dumb we lie;
Our Hope is dead, the seed we spread
Fell o’er the earth to die.
What’s this? For joy our hearts stand still,
And life is loved and dear,
The lost and found the Cause hath crowned,
The Day of Days is here.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXD XAXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 1111101 111101 11011111 01111 11011111 011101 101110101 010101 11011101 110111 11110101 110101 11011101 11111 101110111 110111 011110111 011101 01010111 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 679 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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