Analysis of To the silent Night!
Thee, a sleeping beauty –
across the blues
and over the endless dales,
Mountains and on the lap of gentle winds!
Night!
Thee, a soulful song –
of the forest nightingale,
across the slumbering hills
and over the *Nila’s silent whirls.
Night!
Thee, a dancing sonnet –
of the world of dreams,
from the spaces of light years
unto the silent stars
and melting into the silken moonlight.
Night!
Thee, nature’s fiddle –
playing the Silver Streaks,
sailing unto the shores of sleep,
trickling into the still air,
and lending the world
a stream of solemn moments.
Night!
Thee, a pool of dreams,
gliding in the crescent moon,
where mercuric angels dance
when the Spring girl of the forest
cuddles the whispering brook yonder
and brings a little archangel
to my parish little hut.
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| Scheme | xaxx Bxxxa Bxcxxb Bdxxxxx Bcxxxxdx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101010 0101 0100101 1001011101 1 10101 1010100 0101001 01001101 1 101010 10111 1010111 100101 010010101 1 11010 100101 10100111 1001011 01001 0111010 1 10111 1000101 1010101 10111010 10100110 0101010 1110101 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 820 |
| Words | 156 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 |
| Lines Amount | 31 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
About this poem
This is an impressive poem about the Night in the backdrop of a flowing river, moonlight, those twinkling silent stars using various images. The conclusion is Night! Thee, a pool of dreams, gliding in the crescent moon, where mercuric angels dance when the Spring girl of the forest cuddles the whispering brook yonder and brings a little archangel to my parish little hut. I generally use the word 'thee'/'thou' to denote something quite antique in nature. From time immemorial past, the feelings of man about Night is more or less the same. By 'Mercuric Angels', what I meant was the silver-toned nature of the smalt of Night/Nature and to highlight it used the image of an Angel. The usage of angels led me to further images like Archangels, Parish, etc. Archangels to my thoughts include a "heavenly being', a 'spiritual being' and the like. more »
Written on April 14, 1981
Submitted by ravi_panamanna on December 06, 2023
Modified by ravi_panamanna on December 06, 2023
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