Analysis of Street Lanterns
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 1861 (London) – 1907
Country roads are yellow and brown.
We mend the roads in London town.
Never a hansom dare come nigh,
Never a cart goes rolling by.
An unwonted silence steals
In between the turning wheels.
Quickly ends the autumn day,
And the workman goes his way,
Leaving, midst the traffic rude,
One small isle of solitude,
Lit, throughout the lengthy night,
By the little lantern's light.
Jewels of the dark have we,
Brighter than the rustic's be.
Over the dull earth are thrown
Topaz, and the ruby stone.
Scheme | AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 10111001 11010101 10010111 10011101 11101 0010101 1010101 0010111 1010101 111110 1010101 101011 1010111 101011 1001111 100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 484 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 48 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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