Analysis of Teaching From The Stars
Jane Taylor 1783 (London) – 1824
Stars, that on your wondrous way
Travel through the evening sky,
Is there nothing you can say
To such a little child as I?
Tell me, for I long to know,
Who has made you sparkle so?
Yes, methinks I hear you say,
'Child of mortal race attend;
While we run our wondrous way,
Listen; we would be your friend;
Teaching you that name Divine,
By whose mighty word we shine.
'Child, as truly as we roll
Through the dark and distant sky,
You have an immortal soul,
Born to live when we shall die.
Suns and planets pass away:
Spirits never can decay.
'When some thousand years at most,
All their little time have spent,
One by one our sparkling host
Shall forsake the firmament.
We shall from our glory fall;
You must live beyond us all.
'Yes, and God, who bade us roll -
God, who hung us in the sky,
Stoops to watch an infant's soul
With a condescending eye;
And esteems it dearer far-
More in value than a star!
'Oh, then, while your breath is given,
Let it rise in fervant prayer,
And beseech the God of heaven
To receive your spirit there,
Like a living star to blaze,
Ever to your Saviour's praise.'
Scheme | ABABCC ADADEE FBFBAA GXGDHH FBFBII JKJKLL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 1010101 1110111 11010111 1111111 1111101 111111 1110101 11110101 1011111 1011101 1110111 1110111 1010101 1110101 1111111 1010101 1010101 1110111 1110111 11110101 10101 11110101 1110111 1011111 1111001 1111101 100101 011101 1010101 11111110 111011 00101110 1011101 1010111 101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,070 |
Words | 212 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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