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.


Scheme XAXABA XAXABA
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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Victoria Sackville-West

Victoria Josefa Dolores Catalina Sackville-West, Lady Sackville married her first cousin Lionel Edward Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville. Their daughter was the writer, poet and gardener Vita Sackville-West. more…

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