Analysis of Mary Tired
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall 1883 (Gunnersbury, London) – 1922 (Vancouver)
Through the starred Judean night
She went, in travail of the Light,
With the earliest hush she saw
God beside her in the straw.
One poor taper glimmered clear,
Drowsing Joseph nodded near,
All the glooms were rosed with wings.
She that knew the Spirit's kiss
Wearied of the bright abyss.
She was tired of heavenly things.
There between the day and night
These she counted for delight:
Baby kids that butted hard
In the shadowy stable yard;
Silken doves that dipped and preened
Where the crumbling well-curb greened;
Sparrows in the vine, and small
Sapphired flies upon the wall,
So lovely they seemed musical.
In the roof a swift had built.
All the new-born airs were spilt
Out of cups the morning made
Of a glory and a shade.
These her solemn eyelids felt
While unseen the seraphs knelt.
Then a young mouse, sleek and bold,
Rustling in the winnowed gold,
To her shadow crept, and curled
Near the Ransom of the World.
Scheme | AABB CCDEEDAA FFGGHHX IIJJKKLLMM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111 11001101 10100111 1010001 111011 110101 1010111 1110101 1010101 111011001 1010101 1110101 101111 00100101 1011101 10100111 1000101 110101 11011100 0010111 1011101 1110101 1010001 101011 101011 1011101 100011 101101 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 899 |
Words | 166 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 8, 7, 10 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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