Analysis of Thick Is The Darkness
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
Thick is the darkness -
Sunward, O, sunward!
Rough is the highway -
Onward, still onward!
Dawn harbours surely
East of the shadows.
Facing us somewhere
Spread the sweet meadows.
Upward and forward!
Time will restore us:
Light is above us,
Rest is before us.
| Scheme | ABXB XCXC BAAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 11010 10110 1101 10110 1110 1101 1011 1011 10010 11011 11011 11011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 254 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 67 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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