Analysis of Evening.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
The light is drawn out of the leaves and grass,
And the sweet flowers grow pale in the gray air,
As if their beauty's essence e'en did pass
With the departing light from all things fair,
As the sap in the trees when summer's fled
Draws back to the earth, leaving the leaves dead.
The sky becomes a cloud, the hills a shade,
As the mysterious darkness fills the sphere,
A monstrous elf whose tentacles are laid
In silence upon all things far and near;
Now the bats flit about the mothy damp
In which the spiders weave their airy camp.
I, too, could fill as 'twere a dreamy bed
Under the green leaves in the darkness now,
And watch the evening planet overhead
Like a dewdrop upon the airy bough
Of heaven tremble — till my soul too grew
Like liquid light in water, shining through.
And I can feel that which the dead inherit —
Peace, and the power to forego the pain
That like a vulture on the human spirit
Draws its fine essence from the fading brain,
Till every sense contracts, and the slow breath
Oozes away in the desire of death.
So from me slips the day's disquietude,
And I am made one with the night, as those
Who pass from thought into a faery mood
On Lethe's wharf, whenas old Charon goes
Into the dusk of that eternal eve
Where all must go when the earth-light they leave.
Scheme | ABABCCDEDEFFCGCGHHIJIJKKCLMLNN |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0111110101 00110110011 1111101111 1001011111 1010011101 1110110011 0101010101 10010010101 0101110011 0100111101 101101011 0101011101 1111110101 1001100101 0101010101 101010101 1101011111 1101010101 01111101010 1001010101 11010101010 1111010101 1100110011 10010001011 1111011 0111110111 111101011 11111101 0101110101 1111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,265 |
Words | 246 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 30 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,007 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 244 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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