Analysis of What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
The moon's a gong, hung in the wild,
Whose song the fays hold dear.
Of course you do not hear it, child.
It takes a FAIRY ear.
The full moon is a splendid gong
That beats as night grows still.
It sounds above the evening song
Of dove or whippoorwill.
| Scheme | AXAX BCBC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 01011001 110111 11111111 110101 01110101 111111 11010101 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 251 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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