Analysis of An Hymn To The Evening
Phillis Wheatley 1753 (West Africa) – 1784 (Boston)
SOON as the sun forsook the eastern main
The pealing thunder shook the heav'nly plain;
Majestic grandeur! From the zephyr's wing,
Exhales the incense of the blooming spring.
Soft purl the streams, the birds renew their notes,
And through the air their mingled music floats.
Through all the heav'ns what beauteous dies are
spread!
But the west glories in the deepest red:
So may our breasts with ev'ry virtue glow,
The living temples of our God below!
Fill'd with the praise of him who gives the light,
And draws the sable curtains of the night,
Let placid slumbers sooth each weary mind,
At morn to wake more heav'nly, more refin'd;
So shall the labours of the day begin
More pure, more guarded from the snares of sin.
Night's leaden sceptre seals my drowsy eyes,
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010101 01101011 010011011 100110101 1101010111 0101110101 11011111 1 1011000101 1110111101 01010110101 1101111101 0101010101 110111101 111111101 110110101 1111010111 1101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 765 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 603 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 135 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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