Analysis of When The Long Day Has Faded

Richard Le Gallienne 1866 (Liverpool) – 1947



When the long day has faded to its end,
The flowers gone, and all the singing done,
And there is no companion left save Death-
Ah! there is one,
Though in her grave she lies this many a year,
Will send a violet made of her blue eyes,
A flowering whisper of her April breath,
Up through the sleeping grass to comfort me,
And in the April rain her tears shall fall.


Scheme ABCBDECFG
Poetic Form
Metre 1011110111 0101010101 0111010111 1111 10011111001 11010011011 01001010101 1101011101 0001010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 363
Words 74
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 281
Words per stanza (avg) 72
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Richard Le Gallienne

Richard Le Gallienne was an English author and poet. The American actress Eva Le Gallienne was his daughter, by his second marriage. more…

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