Analysis of Longford Dawns
Ivor Gurney 1890 ( Gloucester) – 1937 ( London)
Of course not all the watchers of the dawn
See Severn mists like forced-march mists withdraw
London has darkness changing into light
With just one quarter hour of any weight.
Casual and common is the wonder grown, -
Time's duty to lift lights curtain up and down.
But here Time is caught up clear in Eternity
And draws as breathless life as you or me.
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|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111010101 1101111101 1011010011 11110101101 10001010101 11011110101 111111100100 0111011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 352 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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