Analysis of Summer Lightning
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
Just now, as warm day faded from our sight
Hosts of archangels, fleet
On lighting-winged feet
Passed by, all glimmering in the busy night
Sweet angels, bringing no blinding truth to birth
Give us no messages
From heavenly palaces;
Leave us our dark trees and our starlight earth.
| Scheme | ABBA CDDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11111101101 11101 11011 11110000101 11010110111 111100 1100100 11101101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 280 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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