Analysis of Jasper’s Song
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall 1883 (Gunnersbury, London) – 1922 (Vancouver)
WHO goes down through the slim green sallows,
Soon, so soon ?
Dawn is hard on the heels of the moon,
But never a lily the day-star knows
Is white, so white as the one who goes
Armed and shod, when the hyacinths darken.
Then hark, O harken !
And rouse the moths from the deep rose-mallows,
Call the wild hares down from the fallows,
Gather the silk of the young sea-poppies,
The bloom of the thistle, the bells of the foam;
Bind them all with a brown owl's feather,
Snare the winds in a golden tether,
Chase the clouds from the gipsy's weather, and follow, O follow, the white spring home.
Who goes past with the wind that chilled us,
Late, so late ?
Fortune leans on the farmer's gate,
Watching the round sun low in the south,
With a plume in his cap and a rose at his mouth.
But O, for the folk who were free and merry
There's never so much as a red rose-berry.
But old earth's warm as the wine that filled us,
And the fox and the little gray mouse skull build us
Walls of the sweet green gloom of the cedar,
A roof of bracken, a curtain of whin;
One more rouse ere the bowl reposes
Low in the dust of our lost red roses,
One more song ere the cold night closes, and welcome, O welcome the dark death in !
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 111 111101101 1100100111 111110111 1011010010 11110 0101101110 10111101 1001101110 01101001101 111101110 101001010 101101100101100111 111101111 111 10110101 100111001 101011001111 11101101010 11011101110 1111101111 001001011111 1101111010 0111001011 1111011 10011101110 1111011100101100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,189 |
Words | 238 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 18, 10 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 461 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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