November Night

Adelaide Crapsey 1878 (Brooklyn) – 1914 (Rochester)



Listen…
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees
And fall.
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Submitted by brian_s on October 17, 2017

Modified on April 19, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDE
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 120
Words 20
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5

Adelaide Crapsey

US born poet ,Adelaide Crapsey(1878-1914, )was the creator of the Imagist ,American Cinquain poetic form with the syllabic line count of 2,4,6,8,2. more…

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