Analysis of Eva Gray
Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)
PALER, paler, day by day,
Waxeth wordless Eva Gray,
Wasting through the heart away!
How shall those who wish her well,
Lift the shadow erst that fell
Round her from Love’s darken’d spell?
Would they have her feast with Song?
Ah! its voices but prolong
Like far echoes Memory’s wrong.
Would they to beguile her leisure
Sweet reliefs in music measure?
Music dreams of foregone pleasure.
Would they lure her where the spring
Gives the unshadow’d heart to wing
Upward like a bird and sing?
Still paler, paler, day by day,
Waxeth gentle Eva Gray,—
Wasting like a cloud away.
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| Metre | 11111 110101 1010101 1111101 101111 101111 1110111 1110101 111011 11101010 10101010 10111110 1110101 101111 1010101 111111 110101 1010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 570 |
| Words | 103 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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