Analysis of Silence and Stealth of Days
Henry Vaughan 1621 (Brecknockshire) – 1695
Silence, and stealth of days! 'tis now
Since thou art gone,
Twelve hundred hours, and not a brow
But clouds hang on.
As he that in some cave's thick damp
Lockt from the light,
Fixeth a solitary lamp,
To brave the night,
And walking from his sun, when past
That glim'ring ray
Cuts through the heavy mists in haste
Back to his day,
So o'r fled minutes I retreat
Unto that hour
Which show'd thee last, but did defeat
Thy light, and power,
I search, and rack my soul to see
Those beams again,
But nothing but the snuff to me
Appeareth plain;
That dark and dead sleeps in its known
And common urn,
But those fled to their Maker's throne
There shine and burn;
O could I track them! but souls must
Track one the other,
And now the spirit, not the dust,
Must be thy brother.
Yet I have one Pearl by whose light
All things I see,
And in the heart of earth and night
Find heaven and thee.
Scheme | ABACDEDEFGHGIJIJKLKMNONOPJPJEKEK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10011111 1111 110100101 1111 11101111 1101 101001 1101 01011111 111 11010101 1111 111110101 10110 11111101 11010 11011111 1101 11010111 11 11011011 0101 11111101 1101 11111111 11010 01010101 11110 11111111 1111 00011101 11001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 886 |
Words | 174 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 32 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 676 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 172 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 09, 2023
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