Analysis of A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M.
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
They have watered the street,
It shines in the glare of lamps,
Cold, white lamps,
And lies
Like a slow-moving river,
Barred with silver and black.
Cabs go down it,
One,
And then another,
Between them I hear the shuffling of feet.
Tramps doze on the window-ledges,
Night-walkers pass along the sidewalks.
The city is squalid and sinister,
With the silver-barred street in the midst,
Slow-moving,
A river leading nowhere.
Opposite my window,
The moon cuts,
Clear and round,
Through the plum-coloured night.
She cannot light the city:
It is too bright.
It has white lamps,
And glitters coldly.
I stand in the window and watch the
moon.
She is thin and lustreless,
But I love her.
I know the moon,
And this is an alien city.
Scheme | ABBXCXXXCAXXCXXX XXXDEDBE XFBCFE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (43%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 111001 1100111 111 01 1011010 111001 1111 1 01010 0111101011 11101010 11010101 0101100100 101011001 110 010101 100110 011 101 101101 1101010 1111 1111 01010 110010010 1 11101 1110 1101 011110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 703 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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