Analysis of Dawns of the world, how I have known you all...

Christopher John Brennan 1870 (Haymarket, New South Wales) – 1932 (Lewisham, New South Wales)



Dawns of the world, how I have known you all,
so many, and so varied, and the same!
dawns o'er the timid plains, or in the folds
of the arm'd hills, or by the unsleeping shore;
a chill touch on the chill flesh of the dark
that, shuddering, shrinks from its couch, and leaves
a homeless light, staring, disconsolate,
on the drear world it knows too well, the world
it fled and finds again, its wistful hope
unmet by any miracle of night,
that mocks it rather, with its shreds that hang
about the woods and huddled bulks of gloom
that crouch, malicious, in the broken combes,
witness to foulnesses else unreveal'd
that visit earth and violate her dreams
in the lone hours when only evil wakes.


Scheme ABCDEFGGHGIJKGLM
Poetic Form
Metre 1101111111 1100110001 11001011001 101111011 0111011101 1100111101 0101101 1011111101 1101011101 0111010011 1111011111 0101010111 1101000101 101111 1101010001 00110110101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 699
Words 129
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 540
Words per stanza (avg) 127
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Christopher John Brennan

Christopher John Brennan was an Australian poet, scholar and literary critic. more…

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