Analysis of Wings
Katharine Lee Bates 1859 (Falmouth) – 1929 (Wellesley)
GRAY gulls that wheeled and dipped and rose
Where tossing crests like Alpine snows
Would shimmer and entice;
A stormy petrel, Judas soul,
Dark wanderer of the waste, whose goal
No mariner hath seen;
And flaming from the vanished sun
A wondrous wing vermilion,
A bird of Paradise,
A soaring wing that shone so far
The orient horizon bar
Flushed, and the sea between
Like an Arabian carpet glowed
With changeful hues where subtly flowed
Some magical device;
And one pale plume in heaven's dim dome
Above that fairy-colored foam,
The new moon's ghostly sheen.
Scheme | AABCCDEEBFFDGGBHHD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 1101111 110001 0101101 110010111 110011 01010101 0101010 01110 01011111 0100101 100101 110100101 11111001 110001 011101011 01110101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 547 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 448 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 95 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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