Analysis of Sunset
George Charles Whitney 1884 (Drummoyne)
Behind the golden western hills
The sun goes down, a founder'd bark,
Only a mighty sadness fills
The silence of the dark.
O twilight sad with wistful eyes,
Restore in ruth again to me
The shadow of the peace that lies
Beyond the purple sea.
The sun of my great joy goes down,
Against the paling heights afar,
Gleams out like some glad angel's crown,
A yellow evening star;
The glory from the western hills
Falls fading, spark on spark,
Only a mighty sadness fills
The spaces of the dark.
Scheme | abAb cdcd efef abAb |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01010101 01110101 10010101 010101 1111101 01010111 0110111 010101 01111111 0101101 1111111 010101 01010101 110111 10010101 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 507 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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