Analysis of An Evening In October
Sophie M Almon Hensley 1866 (Bridgetown) – 1946 (Windsor)
Evening has thrown her hushing garment round
This little world; no harsh or jarring sound
Disturbs my reverie. The room is dark,
And kneeling at the window I can mark
Each light and shadow of the scene below.
The placid glistening pools, the streams that flow
Through the red earth, left by the hurrying tide;
The ridge of mountain on the farther side
Shewing more black for many twinkling lights
That come and go about the gathering heights.
Below me lie great wharves, dreary and dim,
And lumber houses crowding close and grim
Like giant shadowed guardians of the port,
With towering chimneys outlined tall and swart
Against the silver pools. Two figures pace
The wharf in ghostly silence, face from face.
O'er the black line of mountain, silver-clear
In faint rose-tint of vaporous evening air,
Sinketh the bright suspicion of a wing,
The slim curved moon, who in shy triumphing
Hideth her face. Above, the rose-tint pales
Into a silver opal, hills and dales
Of cloudy glory, fading high alone
Into a tender blue-grey monotone. -
And then I thought: "ere that fair, slender moon
Has rounded grown and full, (so soon, so soon!)
Our hearts' desire accomplished we shall see
Dear one, all light, and joy, and ecstasy!"
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Metre | 101101101 1101111101 0111000111 0101010111 110110101 01010010111 10111101001 0111010101 1111101001 11010101001 0111111001 0101010101 11010100101 1100101101 0101011101 0101010111 10011110101 011111101 101010101 01111011 101010111 0101010101 1101010101 010101110 0111111101 1101011111 101010010111 1111010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,191 |
Words | 212 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 966 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 210 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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