Analysis of Crows.
Sophie M Almon Hensley 1866 (Bridgetown) – 1946 (Windsor)
They stream across the fading western sky
A sable cloud, far o'er the lonely leas;
Now parting into scattered companies,
Now closing up the broken ranks, still high
And higher yet they mount, while, carelessly,
Trail slow behind, athwart the moving trees
A lingering few, 'round whom the evening breeze
Plays with sad whispered murmurs as they fly.
A lonely figure, ghostly in the dim
And darkening twilight, lingers in the shade
Of bending willows: "Surely God has laid
His curse on me," he moans, "my strength of limb
And old heart-courage fail me, and I flee
Bowed with fell terror at this augury."
Scheme | ABBACBBA DEEDCX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010101 01011100101 1100110100 1101010111 0101111100 1101010101 01001110101 1111010111 0101010001 0100110001 110110111 1111111111 0111011011 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 591 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 237 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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