Analysis of The Sculptor
Arthur Henry Adams 1872 (Lawrence) – 1936 (Sydney, New South Wales)
O'er the Eastern hills of light
While the dim world slept
Dawn the sculptor stepped,
And the shapeless block of Night
Chiselled into form
Morning-lit and warm.
| Scheme | ABBACC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Heroic Sestet |
| Metre | 10010111 10111 10101 0010111 1011 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 172 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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