Analysis of The Raven Blue
It was an un-starry dark ,
The sun came up dim and yellowish ,
The birds got numbed ,
And no voice did they cherish .
It was day light gray ,
People attempted to pray ,
The temple priest and the churchman ,
Felt the church a deserted land .
It was the morning of autumnal-evening ,
The day felt no awakening of dawn ,
The evening engulfed the usual morn ,
It was no dismay ,but a hang of night and day ,
It caught no sense ,but sense be there may .
It shrouded the weather of raven blue ,
It was for the raven ,as the raven brought the clue ,
It was neither day nor night but raven blue .
It feathered the wings of the remotest pas ,
It stirred the shadows of future dust ,
For it was the rest of Time from all minds ,
And the raven was blue in the blue wind .
My me was reduced into spectre naught ,
And I felt the sea as barren-drought ,
The grassy lea with my acre of land ,
Faded and stood with airy strand ,
Nothing could I remember ,
As I was dismayed with strange moan ,
The blue of the raven teased me beyond any bourn ,
Yet I heard ,singing the bird ,a voice unknown ,
Scheme | XAXA BBXC XXDBB EEE XXXX XXCC XFDF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 011110100 0111 0111110 11111 1001011 01010010 10100101 11010101010 0111010011 0100101001 111011011101 111111111 1100101101 1110101010101 11101111101 11001100101 11011101 1110111111 0010110011 1110101101 011011101 0101111011 10011101 1011010 11101111 0110101101101 11110010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,055 |
Words | 201 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 3, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on October 15, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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