Analysis of Closing Time: Public Library
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
At ten o'clock the great gong sounds its dread
Prelude to splendour. I push back my chair,
And all the people leave their books. We flock,
Still acquiescent, down the marble stair
Into the dark where we can't read. And thought
Swoops down insatiate through the starry air.
| Scheme | ABCBDB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101011111 11111111 0101011111 1110101 0101111101 11110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 280 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 216 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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