Analysis of This Night



This night, as I sit here alone,
And brood on what is dead and gone,
The owl that's in this Highgate Wood,
Has found his fellow in my mood;
To every star, as it doth rise -
Oh-o-o! Oh-o-o! he shivering cries.

And, looking at the Moon this night,
There's that dark shadow in her light.
Ah! Life and death, my fairest one,
Thy lover is a skeleton!
"And why is that?" I question - "why?"
Oh-o-o! Oh-o-o! the owl doth cry.


Scheme XXXXAA BBCCDD
Poetic Form
Metre 11111101 01111101 0110111 11110011 110011111 11111111001 01010111 1111001 11011101 11010100 01111101 1111110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 415
Words 86
Sentences 12
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 6
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 150
Words per stanza (avg) 41
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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William Henry Davies

William Henry Davies or W H Davies was a Welsh poet and writer Davies spent a significant part of his life as a tramp or vagabond in the United States and United Kingdom but became known as one of the most popular poets of his time The principal themes in his work are the marvels of nature observations about lifes hardships his own tramping adventures and the various characters he met Davies is usually considered as one of the Georgian poets although much of his work is atypical of the style and themes adopted by others of the genre more…

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