Analysis of At Evening Time There Shall Be Light
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
THE day was wild with wind and rain,
One grey wrapped sky and sea and shore,
It seemed our marsh would never again
Wear the rich robes that once it wore.
The scattered farms looked sad and chill,
Their sheltering trees writhed all awry,
And waves of mist broke on the hill
Where once the great sea thundered by.
Then God remembered this His land,
This little land that is our own,
He caught the rain up in His hand,
He hid the winds behind His throne,
He soothed the fretful waves to rest,
He called the clouds to come away,
And, by blue pathways, to the west,
They went, like children tired of play.
And then God bade our marsh put on
Its holy vestment of fine gold;
From marge to marge the glory shone
On lichened farm and fence and fold;
In the gold sky that walled the west,
In each transfigured stone and tree,
The glory of God was manifest,
Plain for a little child to see!
Scheme | XAXABCBC DEDEFGFG XHEHFIFI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111101 11110101 1110111001 10111111 01011101 110011101 01111101 11011101 11010111 110111101 11011011 11010111 11010111 11011101 0111101 111101011 011110111 1101111 11110101 1110101 00111101 011101 01011110 11010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 886 |
Words | 172 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 229 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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