Twilight on Sixth Avenue at Ninth Street

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts 1860 (Douglas) – 1943 (Toronto)



Over the tops of the houses
        Twilight and sunset meet.
    The green, diaphanous dusk
        Sinks to the eager street.

    Astray in the tangle of roofs
        Wanders a wind of June.
    The dial shines in the clock-tower
        Like the face of a strange-scrawled moon.

    The narrowing lines of the houses
      Palely begin to gleam,
  And the hurrying crowds fade softly
      Like an army in a dream.

  Above the vanishing faces
      A phantom train flares on
  With a voice that shakes the shadows, --
      Diminishes, and is gone.

  And I walk with the journeying throng
      In such a solitude
  As where a lonely ocean
      Washes a lonely wood.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABXB XCXC ADXD AXXX XXXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 679
Words 108
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (January 10, 1860 – November 26, 1943) was a Canadian poet and prose writer. He was one of the first Canadian authors to be internationally known. more…

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