Analysis of Night
Jones Very 1813 (Salem) – 1880
I thank thee, Father, that the night is near
When I this conscious being may resign;
Whose only task thy words of love to hear,
And in thy acts to find each act of mine;
A task too great to give a child like me,
The myriad-handed labors of the day,
Too many for my closing eyes to see,
Thy words too frequent for my tongue to say;
Yet when thou see'st me burthened by thy love,
Each other gift more lovely then appears,
For dark-robed night comes hovering from above,
And all thine other gifts to me endears;
And while within her darkened couch I sleep,
Thine eyes untired above will constant vigils keep.
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Metre | 1111010111 1111010101 1101111111 0011111111 0111110111 01001010101 1101110111 1111011111 1111111111 1101110101 11111100101 011101111 0101010111 11101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 600 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 473 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 115 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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