Analysis of Dusk
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Now is the healing, quiet hour that fills
This gay, green world with peace and grateful rest.
Where lately over opalescent hills
The blood of slain Day reddened all the west,
Now comes at Night's behest,
A glow that over all the forest spills,
As with the gold of promised daffodils.
Of all hours this is best.
It is time for thoughts of holy things,
Of half-forgotten friends and one's own folk.
O'er all, the garden-scented sweetness clings
To mingle with the wood fire's drifting smoke.
A bull-frog's startled croak
Sounds from the gully where the last bird sings
His laggard vesper hymn, with folded wings;
And night spreads forth her cloak.
Keeping their vigil where the great range yearns,
Like rigid sentries stand the wise old gums.
On blundering wings a night-moth wheels and turns
And lumbers on, mingling its drowsy hums
With that far roll of drums,
Where the swift creek goes tumbling amidst the ferns...
Now, as the first star in the zenith burns,
The dear, soft darkness comes.
Scheme | ABABBAAB CDCDDCCD EFEFFEEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101011 1111110101 1101011 011111101 111101 0111010101 110111010 1110111 111111101 1101010111 10101010101 11010110101 011101 1101010111 1101011101 011101 1011010111 1101010111 11001011101 0111001101 111111 101111000101 1101100101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,012 |
Words | 174 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 262 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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