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
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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George Eliot

Mary Anne Evans, better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. more…

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