Analysis of Night (II)
Clive Staples Lewis 1898 (Clive Staples Lewis Belfast) – 1963 (Oxford)
I know a little Druid wood
Where I would slumber if I could
And have the murmuring of the stream
To mingle with a midnight dream,
And have the holy hazel trees
To play above me in the breeze,
And smell the thorny eglantine;
For there the white owls all night long
In the scented gloom divine
Hear the wild, strange, tuneless song
Of faerie voices, thin and high
As the bat’s unearthly cry,
And the measure of their shoon
Dancing, dancing, under the moon,
Until, amid the pale of dawn
The wandering stars begin to swoon. . . .
Ah, leave the world and come away!
The windy folk are in the glade,
And men have seen their revels, laid
In secret on some flowery lawn
Underneath the beechen covers,
Kings of old, I’ve heard them say,
Here have found them faerie lovers
That charmed them out of life and kissed
Their lips with cold lips unafraid,
And such a spell around them made
That they have passed beyond the mist
And found the Country-under-wave. . . .
Kings of old, whom none could save!
Scheme | AABBCCDEDEFFDGHGI JJHKIKLJJLM M |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 11110111 010100101 1101011 01010101 11011001 0101010 11011111 0010101 101111 1110101 1010101 0010111 10101001 01010111 010010111 11010101 01011001 01111101 010111001 010110 1111111 1111110 11111101 1111101 01010111 11110101 01010101 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 971 |
Words | 182 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 17, 11, 1 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 256 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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