Analysis of Wild Geese Across the Moon
Muriel Stuart 1885 – 1967
REEDS, snake-like, coiled in the mist
Where the low fog drives:
The muddy cough of the stream that strives
To free its throat from the clot of reed,
As they fight it out the water and the weed--
While the fog, above, takes turn and twist:
Men, these are your lives!
Wild Geese across the moon:
As some hand that unrolls
And scratches black names upon blood-red scrolls;
So seem these shadows, dipping, dying,
Black shapes on the red moon, screaming, flying,
Till the fog blots out, or late or soon:
Men, these are your souls!
Scheme | ABBCCAX DBEFFDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001 10111 010110111 111110111 11111010001 101011101 11111 110101 11111 0101101111 11111010 1110111010 101111111 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 532 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 203 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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