Analysis of Twilight
Edwin James Brady 1869 (Carcoar, New South Wales) – 1952 (Pambula, New South Wales)
When a heavy surf is droning
In the twilight on the bar;
When our Mother Sea is crooning
Her quaint cradle-song afar;
When the wild black swans are lining
To some still, remote lagoon;
And above the headland, shining,
Hangs a quiet, crescent moon;
When the panoply, the splendor
Of the tropic sunset dies, —
Then my Fancy turns to tender
Dreams beneath the queenly skies.
Dear-loved Loadstone of my longing.
Fair, fond Woman of my heart!
When the twilight thoughts are thronging.
Art thou dreaming, too, apart?
Yes, my Spirit echoes truly;
'Circling seas shall, with the tide.
Pulse on either shore of Thule,
In the Dream Beatified.
'Surely as the mystic Crescent
Silvers now a garden fair,
Will the shining, white, liquescent
Light of Love burn also there!**
So I mourn not that the splendor
Of the dead Day lies in pall.
When the Night her brooding, tender
Wings of fantasy lets fall.
In the dusk Tm sitting, building
Tall cloud-castles by the sea ;
In the dusk my Love is gilding
Castles fair for her and me.
Scheme | A BA B AC AC D ED E AF AF G HG H XIFI DX DX AG AG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101110 001101 110101110 0110101 10111110 1110101 0010110 1010101 10100010 101011 11101110 101011 1111110 1110111 101111 1110101 11101010 10011101 1110111 001010 10101010 1010101 101011 1111101 11111010 1011101 10101010 1110011 00111010 1110101 00111110 1011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,021 |
Words | 182 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 18 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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