Analysis of 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.
| Scheme | AABCDDEBFCEF AA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010101 01111100101 1101010101 1000101 01111 11101111 1110110111 011111 001111001 1101010101 1011001 01 110101 11111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 501 |
| Words | 92 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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