Analysis of Blue Wings
George Eliot 1819 (Nuneaton, Warwickshire) – 1880 (Chelsea, London)
Warm whisp'ring through the slender olive leaves
Came to me a gentle sound,
Whis'pring of a secret found
In the clear sunshine 'mid the golden sheaves:
Said it was sleeping for me in the morn,
Called it gladness, called it joy,
Drew me on 'Come hither, boy.'
To where the blue wings rested on the corn.
I thought the gentle sound had whispered true
Thought the little heaven mine,
Leaned to clutch the thing divine,
And saw the blue wings melt within the blue!
Scheme | ABBA CDDC EFFE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111010101 1110101 110101 001110101 1111011001 111111 1111101 1101110101 1101011101 1010101 1110101 0101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 457 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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