Analysis of A Light In The Window
Madison Julius Cawein 1865 ( Louisville, Kentucky) – 1914 ( Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky)
Rain and wind and candlelight
And let us pray a prayer to-night:
For every soul, since life is brief,
Little of trouble and less of grief.
And set a light at the windowpane,
To guide Love home through the night and rain.
Rain and wind and candlelight
And what shall we pray again to-night?
For every life, whose way is dim,
The grace of God and trust in Him.
A word, a song, till the tears be dried,
And Faith and Hope sit down beside.
Rain and wind and candlelight
And one last prayer to pray to-night:
For every heart in the dark and rain
To know its prayer is not in vain:
A door flung wide, and a face aglow
Love come back from the Long-Ago.
Then let the rain and the wind without
Threaten their worst and rave and shout:
For who will care, though the night is black
Love to his own has wandered back.
Has wandered back through the rain and night,
Led home again by her candle's light.
Scheme | AabbccAaddeeAaccffgghhaa |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010 01110111 110011111 101100111 01011010 111110101 101010 011110111 110011111 01110101 010110111 01011101 101010 01111111 1100100101 11111101 011100101 11110101 110100101 10110101 111110111 11111101 110110101 11011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 874 |
Words | 175 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 689 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 173 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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