Analysis of A Net to Snare the Moonlight
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
[What the Man of Faith said]
The dew, the rain and moonlight
All prove our Father's mind.
The dew, the rain and moonlight
Descend to bless mankind.
Come, let us see that all men
Have land to catch the rain,
Have grass to snare the spheres of dew,
And fields spread for the grain.
Yea, we would give to each poor man
Ripe wheat and poppies red, —
A peaceful place at evening
With the stars just overhead:
A net to snare the moonlight,
A sod spread to the sun,
A place of toil by daytime,
Of dreams when toil is done.
Scheme | a BcBc xdxd xaxa bexe |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111 010101 1110101 010101 011111 1111111 111101 11110111 011101 11111111 110101 0101110 1011101 011101 011101 011111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 524 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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