Analysis of Downward, Through The Blooming Roofage
Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)
Downward, through the blooming roofage
Of a lonely forest bower,
Come the yellow sunbeams,—falling
Like a burning shower:
So through heaven’s starry ceiling
To the hermit soul’s abode,
Comes the Holy Spirit,—earthward
Raying down from God.
| Scheme | ABCBCDDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010101 10101010 1010110 101010 11101010 1010101 1010101 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 248 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 193 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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