Analysis of TIS come!--the last pale ev'ning-close
Eliza Acton 1799 (Battle) – 1859
'TIS come!--the last pale ev'ning-close
Whose shade shall sink around me here;
And unto me its deep repose,
Brings many a wildly-gushing tear.
Nay, let me dash the drops away,
Which thus, in idle sorrow shed,
A soul un nerv'd, unstrung, betray ,--
Which droops--nor will be comforted.
My quiet home, farewell!--I go
Forth to the cold bleak world again,
A wanderer mid its scenes of woe,
To seek for sheltering peace in vain.
Oh! long my heart will warmly cling
To thee, as to some hallow'd spot,
Where falshood's deadly withering,
And life's stern storms were all forgot.
And some short moments wing'd with bliss,
Pass'd o'er my spirit, like a tone
Of the air-harp, when night-winds kiss
Its chords, to music wild and lone.
My cherish'd home a long farewell!
The pangs which on my bosom press,
As on that word I ling'ring dwell
Are rous'd to keenest wretchedness!
Scheme | AXXX BXBX CXCX DEDE FGFG HXHA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 11011111 11110111 01011101 110010101 11110101 11010101 0111101 11111100 1101111 11011101 010011111 111100101 11111101 11111101 1110100 01110101 01110111 110110101 10111111 11110101 1101011 01111101 11111111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 853 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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