Analysis of A Late Good Night

Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894



My lamp is out, my task is done,
And up the stair with lingering feet
I climb. The staircase clock strikes one.
Good night, my love! good night, my sweet!

My solitary room I gain.
A single star makes incomplete
The blackness of the window pane.
Good night, my love! good night, my sweet!

Dim and more dim its sparkle grows,
And ere my head the pillows meet,
My lids are fain themselves to close.
Good night, my love! good night, my sweet!

My lips no other words can say,
But still they murmur and repeat
To you, who slumber far away,
Good night, my love! good night, my sweet!


Scheme abaB cbcB xbxB dbdB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11111111 010111001 1101111 11111111 1100111 01011001 01010101 11111111 10111101 01110101 11110111 11111111 11110111 11110001 11110101 11111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 569
Words 112
Sentences 14
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 110
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Fuller Murray

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