Analysis of What the Moon Saw
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
Two statesmen met by moonlight.
Their ease was partly feigned.
They glanced about the prairie.
Their faces were constrained.
In various ways aforetime
They had misled the state,
Yet did it so politely
Their henchmen thought them great.
They sat beneath a hedge and spake
No word, but had a smoke.
A satchel passed from hand to hand.
Next day, the deadlock broke.
| Scheme | ABCBDECEFGHG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111 111101 1101010 110001 010011 110101 1111010 110111 11010101 111101 0111111 11011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 359 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 289 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 13, 2023
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