Analysis of Drying Their Wings
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
What the Carpenter Said
The moon's a cottage with a door.
Some folks can see it plain.
Look, you may catch a glint of light,
A sparkle through the pane,
Showing the place is brighter still
Within, though bright without.
There, at a cosy open fire
Strange babes are grouped about.
The children of the wind and tide--
The urchins of the sky,
Drying their wings from storms and things
So they again can fly.
Scheme | X XAXAXBXBXCXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101001 01010101 111111 11110111 010101 10011101 011101 110101010 111101 01010101 010101 10111101 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 411 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 12 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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