Analysis of London
Athwart the sky a lowly sigh
From west to east the sweet wind carried;
The sun stood still on Primrose Hill;
His light in all the city tarried:
The clouds on viewless columns bloomed
Like smouldering lilies unconsumed.
'Oh sweetheart, see! how shadowy,
Of some occult magician's rearing,
Or swung in space of heaven's grace
Dissolving, dimly reappearing,
Afloat upon ethereal tides
St. Paul's above the city rides!'
A rumour broke through the thin smoke
Enwreathing abbey, tower, and palace,
The parks, the squares, the thoroughfares,
The million-peopled lanes and alleys,
An ever-muttering prisoned storm,
The heart of London beating warm.
Scheme | XAXAXA XBXBCC XXXXDD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010101 111101110 0111111 11010101 0111101 11101 1111100 1101110 11011101 010101 010101001 11010101 0011011 11010010 0101010 010101010 110100101 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 631 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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