Analysis of Full Moon
Victoria Sackville-West 1862 (Paris) – 1936 (Roedean, Sussex)
She was wearing the coral taffeta trousers
Someone had brought her from Ispahan,
And the little gold coat with pomegranate blossoms,
And the coral-hafted feather fan;
But she ran down a Kentish lane in the moonlight,
And skipped in the pool of the moon as she ran.
She cared not a rap for all the big planets,
For Betelgeuse or Aldebaran,
And all the big planets cared nothing for her,
That small impertinent charlatan;
But she climbed on a Kentish stile in the moonlight,
And laughed at the sky through the sticks of her fan.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111001010010 111011 001011101010 00101101 1111011001 01001101111 11101110110 110010100 01011011010 110100100 1111011001 01101101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 523 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 210 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 07, 2023
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