Analysis of Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
(What Grandpa told the Children)
The moon? It is a griffin's egg,
Hatching to-morrow night.
And how the little boys will watch
With shouting and delight
To see him break the shell and stretch
And creep across the sky.
The boys will laugh. The little girls,
I fear, may hide and cry.
Yet gentle will the griffin be,
Most decorous and fat,
And walk up to the milky way
And lap it like a cat.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 01110101 101101 01010111 110001 11110101 010101 01110101 111101 11010101 110001 01110101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 385 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 12 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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