Analysis of Evensong
(Holy Trinity Church.)
THE hectic autumn's dilatory fire
Has turned this lime tree to a sevenfold brand,
Which, self consuming, lights the sunless land,
A death to which all poet souls aspire.
Above the graves, where all men's vain desire
Is hushed at last as by a Mother's hand,
And, Time confounded, Love's blank records stand,
The Evensong swells from the pulsing choir.
What incommunicable presence clings
To this grey church and willowy twilight stream?
Am I the dupe of some delusive dream?
Or, like faint fluid phosphorent rings
On refluent seas, doth Shakespeare's spirit gleam
Pervasive round these old familiar things?
Scheme | X ABBXABBA CDDCDC |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 101001 0101010010 1111110101 110101011 0111110101 01011111010 1111110101 0101011011 011101010 11101 1111010011 11011111 1111011 11111101 0101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 635 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 168 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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