Analysis of Coming
Philip Larkin 1922 (Coventry) – 1985 (Hull)
On longer evenings,
Light, chill and yellow,
Bathes the serene
Foreheads of houses.
A thrush sings,
Laurel-surrounded
In the deep bare garden,
Its fresh-peeled voice
Astonishing the brickwork.
It will be spring soon,
It will be spring soon —
And I, whose childhood
Is a forgotten boredom,
Feel like a child
Who comes on a scene
Of adult reconciling,
And can understand nothing
But the unusual laughter,
And starts to be happy.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 11010 1001 1110 011 10010 001110 1111 010001 11111 11111 0111 1001010 1101 11101 101100 010110 1001010 011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 410 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 339 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
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