All Night the Lone Cicada
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts 1860 (Douglas) – 1943 (Toronto)
All night the lone cicada
Kept shrilling through the rain–
A voice of joy undaunted
By unforgotten pain.
Down from the wind-blown branches
Rang out the high refrain,
By tumult undisheartened,
By storm assailed in vain.
To looming vasts of mountain
And shadowy deeps of plain,
The ephemeral, brave defiance
Adventured not in vain.
Till to the faltering spirit
And to the weary brain,
From loss and fear and failure,
My joy returned again.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABXB XBAB XBXB XBXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 433 |
Words | 76 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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