Analysis of Lowry Bay

Hubert Church 1857 – 1932



I am not here alone. A hidden throng
Is round me in the vesper of the sky.
Dead Babylon and Nineveh are nigh;
Rome, Antioch; the slave who felt the thong;
The lord that slew him when the day was long
And the soul heavy with satiety.
And some are near who saw the Christ go by;
While Pilate shut aloof, at gaze with wrong.
And what are they these ministers surround?
The cliff, the sand, the island at my feet
Reef-scattered far below all human ken.
Lo! God hath made a mighty angel beat
His wings, a benediction in their sound,
Above the roof of the most forlorn of men


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111010101 1110010101 110010011 110011101 0111110111 0011011 0111110111 111011111 0111110001 0101010111 1101011101 1111010101 110010011 01011010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 577
Words 113
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 441
Words per stanza (avg) 111
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 01, 2023

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Hubert Church

Hubert Newman Wigmore Church was an Australian poet. more…

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