Analysis of Hesperus

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch 1863 (Bodmin, Cornwall) – 1944 (Cornwall)



Down in the street the last late hansoms go
Still westward, but with backward eyes of red
The harlot shuffles to her lonely bed;
The tall policeman pauses but to throw
A flash into the empty portico;
Then he too passes, and his lonely tread
Links all the long-drawn gas-lights on a thread
And ties them to one planet swinging low.
O Hesperus! O happy star! to bend
O'er Helen's bosom in the trancèd west--
To watch the hours heave by upon her breast
And at her parted lip for dreams attend:
If dawn defraud thee, how shall I be deem'd.
Who house within that bosom, and am dreamed?


Scheme ABBAABBACDDCEE
Poetic Form
Metre 100101111 1101110111 0101010101 0101010111 010101010 1111001101 1101111101 0111110101 11110111 10101000111 11010110101 0101011101 1101111111 1101110011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 576
Words 111
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 452
Words per stanza (avg) 109
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

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