Analysis of How Full of God
Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)
How full of God those evening skies,
Arrayed in calmest loveliness;
But ah! To think how many eyes
Are wet with weeping none the less.
Nay, hearts are aching, eyes are wet
The more that they so richly glow,
Since in the past some glory set,
To leave them in the dark of woe.
To leave them dark, and such a tinge
O’er every aftersunset throw,
That it should only seem to fringe
The pall of a dead long ago.
Ah well-a-day! But so it is,
Pale sorrow groaneth everywhere,
And pain and loss we cannot miss;
To think is almost to despair.
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Metre | 11111101 010101 11111101 11110101 11110111 01111101 10011101 11100111 11110101 110011 11110111 01101101 11011111 110110 01011101 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 567 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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