Analysis of The Home Of The Spirit
Felicia Dorothea Hemans 1793 (Liverpool, Lancashire) – 1835 (Dublin, County Dublin)
Answer me, burning stars of night,
Where is the spirit gone,
That past the reach of human sight,
As a swift breeze hath flown?
And the stars answer'd me: 'We roll
In light and power on high;
But of the never-dying soul
Ask that which cannot die.'
O many-toned and chainless wind,
Thou art a wanderer free;
Tell me if thou its place canst find,
Far over mount and sea?
And the wind murmur'd in reply:
'The blue deep I have cross'd,
And met its barks and billows high,
But not what thou hast lost.'
Ye clouds that gorgeously repose
Around the setting sun,
Answer - Have ye a home for those
Whose earthly race is run?
The bright clouds answer'd: 'We depart,
We vanish from the sky;
Ask what is deathless in thy heart
For that which cannot die.'
Speak, then, thou voice of God within,
Thou of the deep low tone;
Answer me, through life's restless din -
Where is the spirit flown?
And the voice answer'd: 'Be thou still;
Enough to know is given;
Clouds, winds, and stars
their
part fulfil;
Thine
is to trust in Heaven.'
Scheme | AXABCDCD EFEFDGDG HIHIJDJD KBKBXIXXC XI |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (23%) |
Metre | 10110111 110101 11011101 101111 00110111 0101011 11010101 111101 1101011 1101001 11111111 110101 00110001 011111 01110101 111111 111101 010101 10110111 110111 01110101 110101 1111011 111101 11111101 110111 10111101 110101 00110111 0111110 1101 1 11 1 111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 991 |
Words | 196 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 9, 2 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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