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 |
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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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