Analysis of Fragment
Harry Crosby 1898 (Boston) – 1929 (New York City)
Moon of leaves,
Moon of the falling leaves,
To you I bring the slippers
of the sun.
That you may dance upon the
floor of sun,
My lady carries sun within her eyes.
Moon of the Unrevealed,
Moon of the gold-encrusted shield,
To you I bring the fragment
of my prayer.
Moon of the crinkled hair,
Tell me, will my lady yield
Eyes and mouth and breasts unsealed?
Will my lady yield?
Moon of the yellow streaked with red,
Moon that the sun would lead to bed,
Moon with the death's head
More than dead,
Why do you frighten the Goddess of Love,
Whose frail white fingers are moving above
The lover's white body lost in his love?
Moon, you are more than dead.
Moon of the ermine loist in the snow,
Moon of the frozen furbelow,
Moon of the nothingness here below,
Moon, you must go.
It is the Sun that tells you so-
Moon, you must go.
And I was dark beneath the moon,
And you were dark beneath the moon,
And we were dark beneath the moon.
Now I am gold beneath the sun,
Now you are gold beneath the sun,
Now we are gold beneath the Sun.
Scheme | aaxbxbxcccd dccc cccceeec fxfF fF ggg bbb |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (31%) |
Metre | 111 110101 1111010 101 1111010 111 1101010101 1101 11010101 1111010 111 11011 1111101 1010101 11101 11010111 11011111 11011 111 1111001011 1111011001 0101101011 111111 110101001 110101 110100101 1111 11011111 1111 01110101 01010101 01010101 11110101 11110101 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 998 |
Words | 203 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 4, 8, 4, 2, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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