Analysis of Day's End

Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)



Little girls,
You are gay,
Little factory girls,
At the end of your day.
There you stand,
Huddled close,
On the back of a tram,
Having taken your dose.
And you go
Through the gray
And the gold of the streets
At the close of the day,
Blind as moles.
You are crude,
You are sweet, little girls,
And amazingly rude,
But so fine
To be gay.
Gentle people are dull
At the end of the day.


Scheme ABABCDEDFBGBHIAIJBKB
Poetic Form Tetractys  (50%)
Etheree  (30%)
Metre 101 111 101001 101111 111 101 101101 101011 011 101 001101 101101 111 111 111101 001001 111 111 101011 101101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 389
Words 79
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 289
Words per stanza (avg) 77
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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Lesbia Harford

Lesbia Harford was an Australian poet, novelist and political activist. more…

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