Analysis of The Night March
Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
With banners furled and clarions mute,
An army passes in the night;
And beaming spears and helms salute
The dark with bright.
In silence deep the legions stream,
With open ranks, in order true;
Over boundless plains they stream and
gleam--
No chief in view!
Afar, in twinkling distance lost,
(So legends tell) he lonely wends
And back through all that shining host
His mandate sends.
Scheme | ABAB CDXCD XEXE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011 11010001 01010101 0111 01010101 11010101 10101110 1 1101 010100101 11011101 01111101 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 379 |
Words | 68 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 4 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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