Analysis of The End of the Day
To B. T.
Dead-tired, dog-tired, as the vivid day
Fails and slackens and fades away.--
The sky that was so blue before
With sudden clouds is shrouded o'er.
Swiftly, stilly the mists uprise,
Till blurred and grey the landscape lies.
* * * * * * *
All day we have plied the oar; all day
Eager and keen have said our say
On life and death, on love and art,
On good or ill at Nature's heart.
Now, grown so tired, we scarce can lift
The lazy oars, but onward drift.
And the silence is only stirred
Here and there by a broken word.
* * * * * * *
O, sweeter far than strain and stress
Is the slow, creeping weariness.
And better far than thought I find
The drowsy blankness of the mind.
More than all joys of soul or sense
Is this divine indifference;
Where grief a shadow grows to be,
And peace a possibility.
Scheme | A BBXXCC BBDDEEFF XXGGXXAA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111 11011010101 10100101 01111101 110111010 1010110 1101011 1 111110111 100111101 11011101 11111101 111101111 01011101 00101101 10110101 1 11011101 10110100 01011111 0101101 11111111 11010100 1101111 0100100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 786 |
Words | 163 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 1, 8, 1, 8 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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