Analysis of An Impression Received From A Symphony
J. C. Squire 1884 (Plymouth) – 1958
There was a day, when I, if that was I,
Surrendered lay beneath a burning sky,
Where overhead the azure ached with heat,
And many red fierce poppies splashed the wheat;
Motion was dead, and silence was complete,
And stains of red fierce poppies splashed the wheat,
And as I lay upon a scent-warm bank,
I fell away, slipped back from earth, and sank,
I lost the place of sky and field and tree,
One covering face obscured the world for me,
And for an hour I knew eternity,
For one fixed face suspended Time for me.
O had those eyes in that extreme of bliss
Shed one more wise and culminating kiss,
My end had come, nor had I lived to quail,
Frightened and dumb as things must do that fail,
And in this last black devil-mocking gale,
Battered and dumb to fight the dark and fail.
Scheme | AABBBB CCDDDD EEFFFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111111 0101010101 1101010111 0101110101 1011010101 0111110101 0111010111 1101111101 1101110101 11001010111 01110110100 1111010111 1111010111 111101001 1111111111 1001111111 0011110101 1001110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 769 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 202 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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