Analysis of Meeting At Night
Robert Browning 1812 (Camberwell) – 1889 (Venice)
The grey sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i' the slushy sand.
Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, thro' its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!
Scheme | AXBBXA CDEEDC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01100111 001011101 001010111 01001111 111011101 01111011 101111101 111110101 011010111 01110101 0011111101 101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 486 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 188 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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