Analysis of The rainy Pleiads wester
Alfred Edward Housman 1859 – 1936
The rainy Pleiads wester,
Orion plunges prone,
The stroke of midnight ceases
And I lie down alone.
The rainy Pleiads wester,
And seek beyond the sea
The head that I shall dream of
That will not dream of me.
| Scheme | Abxb Acxc |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 0101010 010101 011110 011101 0101010 010101 0111111 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 207 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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