Analysis of Morning Peace

Arthur Henry Adams 1872 (Lawrence) – 1936 (Sydney, New South Wales)



THE sudden sunbeams slant between the trees
 Like solid bars of silver. moonlight kissed,
 And strike the supine shadows where they rest
 Stretched sleeping; while a timid, new-born Breeze
 Stirs through the grasses, petulant—her eyes
 Half-blinded by the clinging scarves of mist:
 Her robes, that tangled through the grasses twist,
 Weave as she moves sweet whispered melodies.  
  O may it be a morn like this, when slow
 From a dark world beneath my soul shall go
 Through the wet grasses of a purple plain,
 Still stretching broader in the cool, grey glow
 Of morning twllight: then my soul shall know
 That life and love are lost—and found again!


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Poetic Form
Metre 010110101 110111011 010011111 1101010111 1101010001 1101010111 0111010101 1111110100 1111011111 1011011111 1011010101 1101000111 110111111 1101110101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 663
Words 110
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 511
Words per stanza (avg) 108
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Arthur Henry Adams

Arthur Henry Adams was a journalist and author. He started his career in New Zealand, though he spent most of it in Australia, and for a short time lived in China and London.  more…

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