Analysis of Astarte
Henry Kendall 1839 (Australia) – 1882 (Sydney)
ACROSS the dripping ridges,
O, look, luxurious night!
She comes, the bright-haired beauty,
My luminous delight!
My luminous delight!
So hush, ye shores, your roar,
That my soul may sleep, forgetting
Dead Love’s wild Nevermore!
Astarte, Syrian sister,
Your face is wet with tears;
I think you know the secret
One heart hath held for years!
One heart hath held for years!
But hide your hapless love,
And my sweet—my Syrian sister,
Dead Love’s wild Nevermore!
Ah, Helen Hope in heaven,
My queen of long ago,
I’ve swooned with adoration,
But could not tell you so,
Or dared not tell you so,
My radiant queen of yore!
And you’ve passed away and left me
Dead Love’s wild Nevermore!
Astarte knoweth, darling,
Of eyes that once did weep,
What time entranced Passion
Hath kissed your lips in sleep;
Hath kissed your lips in sleep;
But now those tears are o’er,
Gone, my saint, with many a moan to
Dead Love’s wild Nevermore!
If I am past all crying,
What thoughts are maddening me,
Of you, my darling, dying
Upon the lone, wide sea,
Upon the lone, wide sea,
Ah! hush, ye shores, your roar,
That my soul may sleep, forgetting
Dead Love’s wild Nevermore!
Scheme | xabAAcDCexxFFxeC ghghhcbC digIIcxC dbdBBcDC |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (33%) |
Metre | 0101010 1101001 1101110 110001 110001 111111 11111010 11110 110010 111111 1111010 111111 111111 111101 011110010 11110 1101010 111101 111010 111111 111111 1100111 01101011 11110 1110 111111 110110 111101 111101 111111 111110011 11110 1111110 1111001 1111010 010111 010111 111111 11111010 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,331 |
Words | 205 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 220 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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