Analysis of New Year's Eve
Frederick George Scott 1861 (Montreal, Quebec) – 1944 (Quebec City, Quebec)
WE stand above the abyss; beneath our feet
Around and onward infinite darkness rolls.
The sky above is black; the watch-bell tolls
The dying year. While slow in silent feet
Pale ghosts come towards us from the ice-locked street
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Of thought's great city; faces young and old,
Eyes sunken, features set and deathly cold
And noiseless bear the dead year's winding-sheet.
But lo! where now we stand is worn with tread
Of millions; in the darkness feel, the ground
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Is dust of powdered bones; sure, on this peak
The years have died, and millions of the dead
Have waited vainly through the gloom profound,
For dawn of day or trumpet-voice to speak.
Scheme | ABBAACDDAEFCGEFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110100101101 01010100101 0101110111 0101110101 11101110111 1 1111010101 1101010101 011011101 1111111111 1100010101 1 1111011111 0111010101 1101010101 1111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 678 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 510 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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