Analysis of Long Sight in Age
Philip Larkin 1922 (Coventry) – 1985 (Hull)
They say eyes clear with age,
As dew clarifies air
To sharpen evenings,
As if time put an edge
Round the last shape of things
To show them there;
The many-levelled trees,
The long soft tides of grass
Wrinkling away the gold
Wind-ridden waves— all these,
They say, come back to focus
As we grow old.
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|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111 11101 11010 111111 101111 1111 010101 011111 1000101 110111 1111110 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 289 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 233 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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