Analysis of A Wink From Hesper
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
A wink from Hesper, falling
Fast in the wintry sky,
Comes through the even blue,
Dear, like a word from you…
Is it good-bye?
Across the miles between us
I send you sigh for sigh.
Good-Night, sweet friend, good-night:
Till life and all take flight,
Never good-bye.
| Scheme | XABBA XACCA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 0111010 100101 110101 110111 1111 0101011 111111 111111 110111 1011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 265 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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