Analysis of Night Coming Out Of A Garden

Lord Alfred Douglas 1870 (Worcestershire) – 1945 (Lancing)



Through the still air of night
Suddenly comes, alone and shrill,
Like the far-off voice of the distant light,
The single piping trill
Of a bird that has caught the scent of the dawn,
And knows that the night is over ;
(She has poured her dews on the velvet lawn
And drenched the long grass and the clover),
And now with her naked white feet
She is silently passing away,
Out of the garden and into the street,
Over the long yellow fields of the wheat,
Till she melts in the arms of the day.
And from the great gates of the East,
With a clang and a brazen blare,
Forth from the rosy wine and the feast
Comes the god with the flame-flaked hair ;
The hoofs of his horses ring
On the golden stones, and the wheels
Of his chariot burn and sing,
And the earth beneath him reels;
And forth with a rush and a rout
His myriad angels run,
And the world is awake with a shout,
' He is coming ! The sun ! The sun ! '


Scheme ABABCDCDEFEEFGHGHIJIJKLKL
Poetic Form Tetractys  (24%)
Metre 101111 10010101 1011110101 010101 10111101101 01101110 1110110101 010110010 01101011 111001001 1101000101 1001101101 111001101 01011101 10100101 110101001 10110111 0111101 10101001 11100101 0010111 01101001 1100101 001101101 11100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 888
Words 181
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 25
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 694
Words per stanza (avg) 184
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 23, 2023

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Lord Alfred Douglas

Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, nicknamed Bosie, was a British author, poet and translator, better known as the friend and lover of the writer Oscar Wilde. Much of his early poetry was Uranian in theme, though he tended, later in life, to distance himself from both Wilde's influence and his own role as a Uranian poet. more…

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