Analysis of Disappointment.
Sophie M Almon Hensley 1866 (Bridgetown) – 1946 (Windsor)
The light has left the hill-side. Yesterday
These skies shewed blue against the dusky trees,
The leaves' soft murmur in the evening breeze
Was music, and the waves danced in the bay.
Then was my heart, as ever, far away
With you, - and I could see you as one sees
A mirrored face, - and happiness and ease
And hope were mine, in spite of long delay.
After these months of waiting, this is all!
Hope, dead, lies coffined, shrouded in despair,
With all the blessings of the outer air
Forgot, 'neath the black covering of a pall.
Only the darkening of the woodland ways,
A heart's low moaning over wasted days.
Scheme | ABBAABBA XCCXDD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101110 111101011 0111000101 1100011001 1111110101 1101111111 0101010001 0101011101 1011110111 111110001 1101010101 01101100101 1001001011 0111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 597 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 235 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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