Analysis of Stars
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall 1883 (Gunnersbury, London) – 1922 (Vancouver)
Now in the West the slender moon lies low,
And now Orion glimmers through the trees,
Clearing the earth with even pace and slow,
And now the stately-moving Pleiades,
In that soft infinite darkness overhead
Hang jewel-wise upon a silver thread.
And all the lonelier stars that have their place,
Calm lamps within the distant southern sky,
And planet-dust upon the edge of space,
Look down upon the fretful world, and I
Look up to outer vastness unafraid
And see the stars which sang when earth was made.
Scheme | ABABCC DEDEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001010111 0101010101 1001110101 010101010 01110010101 1101010101 010111111 1101010101 0101010111 1101010101 111101001 0101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 499 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 201 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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