Analysis of Some Starlit Garden Grey With Dew
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
Some starlit garden grey with dew,
Some chamber flushed with wine and fire,
What matters where, so I and you
Are worthy our desire?
Behind, a past that scolds and jeers
For ungirt loins and lamps unlit;
In front, the unmanageable years,
The trap upon the Pit;
Think on the shame of dreams for deeds,
The scandal of unnatural strife,
The slur upon immortal needs,
The treason done to life:
Arise! no more a living lie,
And with me quicken and control
Some memory that shall magnify
The universal Soul.
Scheme | ABAB XAXX CDCD EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11010111 110111010 11011101 11010010 01011101 111011 010010001 010101 11011111 010101001 01010101 010111 01110101 01110001 11001110 00101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 493 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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