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 |
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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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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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