Analysis of Day's End at Rhosneigr
Day’s End at Rhosneigr
The old land drew up its duvet;
Cloud cliffs brushed in light rose but seeping color,
Draining to quiet grey. A face
Set by Earth’s mason in impassive upward gaze
To become an eternal watcher of skies.
Gulls cried. Sea swirled sand.
Sounds merged to manage a mutinous mind;
A merciful panacea, anesthesia
To help draw down the blind on life’s debts.
This salve of beauty is but a whore.
Peddling pretense for indulgence,
She gains addled adherents who are mocked by reason.
What is done is not undone by this.
Truth that hides beyond the dune’s shadows,
Emerges with the encroaching nemesis of night..
Scheme | A BAXXX BBXXA XXXXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 0111111 11101111010 10110101 111100010101 10110101011 11111 1111001001 0100010010 111101111 111101101 100011010 1110010111110 111110111 11101011 0101001010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 617 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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