Analysis of Night Comes Creeping
Rose Terry Cooke 1827 ( Hartford, Connecticut) – 1892 ( Pittsfield, Massachusetts)
Night comes creeping slowly o'er me,
Like a vapor cold and gray;
Dim the track that lies before me,
Lost the lingering smile of day.
As a river, nearing ocean,
Drops the brooklet's merry bell,
I forget hope's wild emotion;
Love and life, farewell, farewell!
Eyes above me raining sorrow,
Lips too tender to be true,
In the sunshine of tomorrow
Glow and sweetness shall renew.
I have trod a weary measure,
Fairy-tales no more I tell.
False is pain, and fleeting pleasure;
Love and life, farewell, farewell!
Softly through the darkened heaven,
Like a vision in the night,
Float the purple wings of even;
No more laughter, no more light.
Close mine eyes, worn out with weeping,
Weary pulses rest as well!
In the dust and silence sleeping,
Love and life, farewell, farewell!
Scheme | abab cdcD efef gdgD chxh idiD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111010101 1010101 10111011 10100111 10101010 101101 10111010 10111 10111010 1110111 001101 1010101 11101010 1011111 11101010 10111 10101010 1010001 10101110 1110111 11111110 1010111 00101010 10111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 760 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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