Analysis of Move Eastward, Happy Earth
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
Move eastward, happy earth, and leave
Yon orange sunset waning slow:
From fringes of the faded eve,
O, happy planet, eastward go:
Till over thy dark shoulder glow
Thy silver sister world, and rise
To glass herself in dewey eyes
That watch me from the glen below.
Ah, bear me with thee, lightly borne,
Dip forward under starry light,
And move me to my marriage-morn,
And round again to happy night.
| Scheme | ABABBCCB DEDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010101 1101101 11010101 11010101 11011101 11010101 11010101 11110101 11111101 11010101 01111101 01011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 405 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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