Analysis of Westminster Abbey
Frederick George Scott 1861 (Montreal, Quebec) – 1944 (Quebec City, Quebec)
'TWAS afternoon in winter, and the light
Sloped softly up the walls, as day was done,
In tremulous cloud-beams, while the westering sun
Blazoned with saints the columns opposite.
All sounds had died away; to left and right
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Was silence, tho' I seemed to hear again
The spirit-echoes of the last Amen
Far in the groinèd shadowings out of sight.
Oh! silence strange, so deep, so vast, profound;
Ten ages slumber in the dust beneath,
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And yet no voice,—no voice from those who trod
These aisles before and lie so still around.
Oh! is it that they lose all voice in death,
Seeing what they see, and being so close to God?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010001 1101011111 0100111011 111010100 1111011101 1 1101111101 0101010101 100111111 1101111101 1101000101 1 0111111111 1101011101 1111111101 101110101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 656 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 481 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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