Analysis of Starlight At Sea
Katharine Lee Bates 1859 (Falmouth) – 1929 (Wellesley)
OVER the murmurous choral of dim waves
The constellations glow against the soft
Ethereal dusk, —forever fair, aloft,
Serene, while man climbs painfully from caves
To cities, clamorous cities, life that raves
Like surf against the rocks. It is not oft
Our cities glimpse the stars, their luster scoffed
Away by low, hard glitter that outbraves
Night's blessing of the dark. But here upon
Mid-ocean, all whose muffled voices ring
A rapture lost to our vexed human wills,
We see the primal radiance that shone
On chaos, —see the young God shepherding
His gleaming flocks on the empurpled hills.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100110111 001010101 01001010101 0111110011 110110111 1101011111 10101011101 011111011 1101011101 1101110101 01011101101 1101010011 1101011100 11011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 590 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 475 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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