Analysis of The Sun Is Dying; Space And Room
Joaquin Miller 1837 (Indiana) – 1913 (Oakland)
The sun is dying; space and room.
Serenity, vast sense of rest,
Lie bosomed in the orange west
Of Orient waters. Hear the boom
Of long, strong billows; wave on wave,
Like funeral guns above a grave.
| Scheme | ABBACC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Heroic Sestet |
| Metre | 01110101 01001111 1100101 11010101 11110111 110010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 193 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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