Analysis of The Night's Sky
Out that night on the mountain trail
days from the city’s glow,
Stretched out under the open sky, while
stars fell and satellites circled;
The depths of the heavens overwhelmed,
as orbs long dead heaved waning light.
My heart, as Hopkins, bred dark heaven’s baffling ban,
for I too am a stranger here;
Yet I, know of my fountain’s birth. And I as son, an heir
of all He hath,
Will one day return
from once I sprang.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 11011 111001011 1101010 01101001 11111101 1111011101001 11110101 11111101011111 1111 11101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 429 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
About this poem
As an avid outdoorsman, one of my favorite things is getting to a place with absolutely no light pollution and laying out on a mountain or high alpine lake shore watching the night sky. I have always enjoyed and been intrigued by Gerard Hopkins' life and his poetry and I often think of him when under the night sky.
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