Analysis of Evenstar



Evenstar, still evenstar
If this twilight thou dost shine
On a more unhappy head,
On tears lonelier than mine,
Vainer prayers and deepest sighs,
Take, sweet spirit, thou that art
Comforter of our despairs
All the prayers perforce unsaid,
All the sighs I cannot sigh,
All the tears I cannot shed;
Fill his eyes and flood his heart,
Who, my everlasting kin,
Broods, afar, unknown, apart.
Bring, ah bring him that surcease
From unsolaceable pain,
Which nor prayers, nor tears, nor sighs,
No, nor even the divine
Presence of thy eternal peace
Can, O evenstar, make mine.


Scheme ABCBDEFCGCEHEDIDBJB
Poetic Form
Metre 111 111111 1010101 11111 110101 1110111 10011001 1010101 1011101 1011101 1110111 110101 1010101 111111 111 1111111 1110001 10110101 11111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 556
Words 99
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 19
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 445
Words per stanza (avg) 97
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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