Analysis of Venetian Night
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
Her eyes in the darkness shone, in the twilight shed
By the gondola bent like the darkness over her head.
Softly the gondola rocked, lights came and went;
A white glove shone as her black fan lifted and leant
Where the silk of her dress, the blue of a bittern's wing,
Rustled against my knee, and, murmuring
The sweet slow hesitant English of a child,
Her voice was articulate laughter, her soul smiled.
Softly the gondola rocked, lights came and went;
From the sleeping houses a shadow of slumber leant
Over our heads like a wing, and the dim lagoon,
Rustling with silence, slumbered under the moon.
Softly the gondola rocked, and a pale light came
Over the waters, mild as a silver flame;
She lay back, thrilling with smiles, in the twilight shed
By the gondola bend like the darkness over her head;
I saw her eyes shine subtly, then close awhile:
I remember her silence, and, in the night, her smile.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01001010011 10100110101001 10010011101 0111101110010 101101011011 101110100 01110010101 01101010011 10010011101 1010100111010 1010110100101 1011011001 100100100111 10010110101 11110110011 10100110101001 110111001101 1010010000101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 894 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 711 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 163 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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