O City, Look the Eastward Way

Enid Derham 1882 (Hawthorn) – 1941



O CITY, look the Eastward way!  
 Beyond thy roofs of shadowy red and grey  
Floats like a lily on the airy stream,  
Radiant and vast, a cloud,  
Around whose billowy head          
Splendour from out the glooming West is shed  
As if it were not ever to take flight,—  
And on its edge of gleam  
In the clear blue of waning afternoon,  
Faint as a spirit slipping from the shroud,          
Faint, and yet gathering light,  
The Moon.  
 
O city, dream and pray!  
This is thy evensong at close of day.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABCDDEBFCEF AA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 501
Words 92
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 12, 2

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