Analysis of Morning Glory
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Singing morning has begun.
Where the wooded ranges run
To far summits, there the snow
Lingers yet. But down below
In the quiet, green-girt places,
Where full many a swift creek races
From the snow-lands to the sea,
Now breaks sudden harmony.
Where this tree-waned clearing dreams,
First a rosy promise be
As young dawn steels up the sky
Where the frozen ramparts lie.
Now, from dew-wet leaves a-glitter,
Comes a little drowsy twitter,
And the first swift spear of light
Wounds at last the stubborn Night.
Flashing now, bright javelins
Pierce the murk; and now begins
As Day's gleaming ranks deploy
Morning's canticle of joy.
First a sleepy chuckle, breaking,
Tells of Laughing Jack awaking,
Pausing; then, from tree to tree,
Leaps unbound hilarity.
Here's the signal .... Morning's hush
Sweetness shatters, as Grey Thrush,
Veiling with the seraphim,
Lifts his liquid matin hymn.
Golden Whistler joins him then,
Now Red Robin, now Blue Wren;
Magpie's trumpet, sounding, swelling,
Caps the eager chorus welling,
As a wealth of varied notes
Pours now from a hundred throats
Up to greet their lord, the Sun,
Morning, morning has begun!
Scheme | AABBCCDD XDEEFFGG CXHHIEDD JJXXKKIILLAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 1010101 1110101 1011101 00101110 111001110 1011101 1110100 1111101 1010101 1111101 101011 11111010 10101010 0011111 1110101 10111 1010101 1110101 10111 10101010 111011 1011111 1010100 1010101 1010111 10101 111011 1010111 1110111 1101010 10101010 1011101 1110101 1111101 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,107 |
Words | 189 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 12 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 223 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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