Analysis of Dedication
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall 1883 (Gunnersbury, London) – 1922 (Vancouver)
LORD, on this paper white,
My soul would write
Tales that were heard of old
Of perilous things and bold;
Kings as young lions for pride;
Lost cities where they died
Last in the gate; the cry
That told some Eastern throng
A prophet was gone by;
The song of swords; the song
Of beautiful, fierce lords
Gone down among the swords;
The traffick and the breath
Of nations spilled in death;
The glory and the gleam
Of a whole age
Snared in a golden page,–
Such is my dream.
Yet thanks, if yet You give
The crumbs by which I live,–
Blown shreds of beauty, broken
Words half unspoken,
So faint, so faltering,
They may not truly show
The blue on a crow's wing,
The berry of a brier
Cupped in new snow
As though the snow lit fire, . . .
Scheme | AABBCCDEDEFFGGHIIH XXJJKLKMLM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 1111 110111 1100101 1111011 110111 100101 111101 010111 011101 110011 110101 01001 110101 010001 1011 100101 1111 111111 011111 1111010 11010 111100 111101 011011 0101010 1011 1101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 711 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 18, 10 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 279 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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