Daybreak In The Desert

Ernest Favenc 1845 (Walworth, Surrey) – 1908 (Sydney, New South Wales)



No cheerful note of bird in leafy bower,
No glistening water dancing in the light,
No dewdrop trembling on some modest flower,
No early cock to crow farewell to-night.

Only a greater stillness in the air,
Save for hot sighs of desert-heated breath,
Only the stars, ceasing their sleepless stare,
Only the east, rose-flushing, fresh from death.

All the wide plain, hid ’neath the waning round
Of a tired moon, grew dimly into view;
With a dull haze hung on its furthest bound,
Then sprang the sun into the steely blue.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 516
Words 93
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

Ernest Favenc

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