Analysis of The Carillon
John Le Gay Brereton 1871 (Sydney) – 1933
Alone
I sit in the dusk and see
Surely the living faces, dear to me,
Of comrades who have thrown
All that they had, the fruit of all desire,
Upon an altar fire.
They heard,
Above all clamour of the crowd,
The music of their own hearts throbbing loud
Until the air was stirred
Into a summoning harmony; and so
We saw them rise, and go.
The sound,
That love set ringing in those years
Of agony, exultation, voiceless fears,
And hopes now underground,
Shall not be silenced; it is thrilling yet,
And we shall not forget.
But clear
The mellow tone of mingled notes,
Triumph and sorrow made one spirit, floats
To my prophetic ear;
That is their music echoing, echoing still
From our remembering hill.
Scheme | ABBACC DEEDFF GHHGII XJJXKK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01 1100101 1001010111 11111 11110111010 0111010 11 0111101 0101111101 010111 01010010001 111101 01 11110011 11001101 01110 1111011101 011101 11 01011101 1001011101 110101 111101001001 11001001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 680 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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