Analysis of To A. L. Gordon



In night-long days, in aeons
   where all Time's nights are one;
where life and death sing paeans
as of Greeks and Galileans,
   never begun or done;

where fate, the slow swooping condor,
   comes glooming all the sky --
as you have pondered I ponder,
as you have wandered I wander,
   as you have died, shall I die?


Scheme ABAAB CDCCD
Poetic Form Etheree  (30%)
Metre 011101 111111 1101110 11101 100111 11011010 11101 11110110 11110110 1111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 324
Words 59
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 5
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 117
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams

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