Analysis of I Know It Will Be Quiet When You Come
Joseph Auslander 1897 (Philadelphia) – 1965 (Coral Gables)
I know it will be quiet when you come:
No wind; the water breathing steadily;
A light like ghost of silver on the sea;
And the surf dreamily fingering his drum.
Twilight will drift in large and leave me numb
With nearness to the last tranquility;
And then the slow and languorous tyranny
Of orange moon, pale night, and cricket hum.
And suddenly there will be twist of tide,
A rustling as of thin silk on the sand,
The tremor of a presence at my side,
The tremble of a hand upon my hand:
And pulses sharp with pain, and fires fanned,
And words that stumble into stars and hide.
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Metre | 1111110111 1101010100 0111110101 001110011 111010111 111010100 010101100 1101110101 0100111111 0101111101 0101010111 0101010111 0101110101 0111001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 564 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 226 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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