Analysis of The Ebb of Day
Arthur Henry Adams 1872 (Lawrence) – 1936 (Sydney, New South Wales)
The ebb of day has now begun;
The waters to the low west crowd;
But one forgotten wisp of cloud
Glows like a fragment of the sun,
And stranded on the shores of Night,
Where ‘gainst the sky the telegraph
Stretching his dim, audacious path
Defiantly to heaven aspires,
There lies a maiden, drowned and white—
The torn Moon tangled in the wires!
Scheme | ABBACDEFCF |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01111101 01010111 11010111 11010101 01010111 1101010 10110101 0100110010 11010101 011100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 363 |
Words | 65 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 270 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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