Analysis of Moon Song
A child saw in the morning skies
The dissipated-looking moon,
And opened wide her big blue eyes,
And cried: "Look, look, my lost balloon!"
And clapped her rosy hands with glee:
"Quick, mother! Bring it back to me."
A poet in a lilied pond
Espied the moon's reflected charms,
And ravished by that beauty blonde,
Leapt out to clasp her in his arms.
And as he'd never learnt to swim,
Poor fool! that was the end of him.
A rustic glimpsed amid the trees
The bluff moon caught as in a snare.
"They say it do be made of cheese,"
Said Giles, "and that a chap bides there. . . .
That Blue Boar ale be strong, I vow --
The lad's a-winkin' at me now."
Two lovers watched the new moon hold
The old moon in her bright embrace.
Said she: "There's mother, pale and old,
And drawing near her resting place."
Said he: "Be mine, and with me wed,"
Moon-high she stared . . . she shook her head.
A soldier saw with dying eyes
The bleared moon like a ball of blood,
And thought of how in other skies,
So pearly bright on leaf and bud
Like peace its soft white beams had lain;
Like Peace! . . . He closed his eyes again.
Child, lover, poet, soldier, clown,
Ah yes, old Moon, what things you've seen!
I marvel now, as you look down,
How can your face be so serene?
And tranquil still you'll make your round,
Old Moon, when we are underground.
Scheme | ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLL AMAMXX NONOPP |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01100101 0100101 01010111 01111101 01010111 11011111 0100011 1010101 0111101 11110011 01110111 11110111 01010101 01111001 11111111 11010111 11111111 0101111 11010111 01100101 11110101 01010101 11110111 11111101 01011101 01110111 01110101 11011101 11111111 11111101 11010101 11111111 11011111 11111101 01011111 1111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,293 |
Words | 256 |
Sentences | 27 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 164 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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