Analysis of Dawn of the Headland

William Watson 1858 (Burley in Wharfedale) – 1935 (Rottingdean)



Dawn - and a magical stillness: on earth, quiescence profound;
On the waters a vast Content, as of hunger appeased and stayed;
In the heavens a silence that seems not mere privation of sound,
But a thing with form and body, a thing to be touched and weighed!
Yet I know that I dwell in the midst of the roar of the cosmic wheel,
In the hot collision of Forces, and clangor of boundless Strife,
Mid the sound of the speed of the worlds, the rushing worlds, and the peal
Of the thunder of Life.


Scheme ABABCDCD
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Metre 1001001011101 1010011011100101 0010010111101011 101110100111101 11111100110110101 001010110011101 1011011010101001 101011
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 493
Words 97
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 48
Words per line (avg) 12
Letters per stanza (avg) 383
Words per stanza (avg) 95
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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William Watson

William Watson, was a surgeon in the 105th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers during the American Civil War. more…

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