Analysis of Interval

Edward Thomas 1878 (London Borough of Lambeth) – 1917 (Pas-de-Calais)



Gone the wild day:
A wilder night
Coming makes way
For brief twilight.

Where the firm soaked road
Mounts and is lost
In the high beech-wood
It shines almost.

The beeches keep
A stormy rest,
Breathing deep
Of wind from the west.

The wood is black,
With a misty steam.
Above, the cloud pack
Breaks for one gleam.

But the woodman's cot
By the ivied trees
Awakens not
To light or breeze.

It smokes aloft
Unwavering:
It hunches soft
Under storm's wing.

It has no care
For gleam or gloom:
It stays there
While I shall roam,

Die, and forget
The hill of trees,
The gleam, the wet,
This roaring peace.


Scheme ABAB XXXX CDCD EFEF GHGH XIXI JXJX KHKX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (63%)
Metre 1011 0101 1011 111 10111 1011 00111 111 011 0101 101 11101 0111 10101 01011 1111 1011 1011 0101 1111 1101 0100 1101 1011 1111 1111 111 1111 1001 0111 0101 1101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 569
Words 113
Sentences 9
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 58
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Edward Thomas

Philip Edward Thomas was an Anglo-Welsh poet and essayist. more…

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