Analysis of The Rose of Midnight
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
The moon is now an opening flower,
The sky a cliff of blue.
The moon is now a silver rose;
Her pollen is the dew.
Her pollen is the mist that swings
Across her face of dreams:
Her pollen is the April rain,
Filling the April streams.
Her pollen is eternal life,
Endless ambrosial foam.
It feeds the swarming stars and fills
Their hearts with honeycomb.
The earth is but a passion-flower
With blood upon his crown.
And what shall fill his failing veins
And lift his head, bowed down?
This cup of peace, this silver rose
Bending with fairy breath
Shall lift that passion-flower, the earth
A million times from Death!
| Scheme | ABCB XDXD XEXE AFXF CGXG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 0111110010 010111 01110101 010101 01010111 010111 01010101 100101 01010101 100101 11010101 11110 011101010 110111 01111101 011111 11111101 101101 111101001 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 617 |
| Words | 114 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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