Analysis of The Glorious Stars of Heaven
Joshua Sylvester 1563 (England) – 1618
I'll ne'er believe that the Arch-Architect
With all these fires the heavenly arches decked
Only for show, and with their glistening shields
To amaze the poor shepherds watching in the fields:
I'll ne'er believe that the least flower that pranks
Our garden borders, or the common banks,
And the least stone that in her warming lap
Our kind nurse Earth doth covetously wrap
Hath some peculiar virtue of its own,
And that the glorious stars of Heaven have none,
But shine in vain, and have no charge precise,
But to be walking in Heaven's galleries,
And through the palace up and down to clamber
As golden gulls about a presence-chamber.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEFGHII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110110 111100100101 10110111001 101011010001 11011011011 10101010101 0011100101 10111111 1101010111 010100111011 1101011101 11110010100 01010101110 11010101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 629 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 508 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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