Analysis of The Moon's Minion
Andrew Lang 1844 (Selkirk, Scottish Borders) – 1912 (Banchory)
Thine eyes are like the sea, my dear,
The wand'ring waters, green and grey;
Thine eyes are wonderful and clear,
And deep, and deadly, even as they;
The spirit of the changeful sea
Informs thine eyes at night and noon,
She sways the tides, and the heart of thee,
The mystic, sad, capricious Moon!
The Moon came down the shining stair
Of clouds that fleck the summer sky,
She kissed thee, saying, 'Child, be fair,
And madden men's hearts, even as I;
Thou shalt love all things strange and sweet,
That know me and are known of me;
The lover thou shalt never meet,
The land where thou shalt never be!'
She held thee in her chill embrace,
She kissed thee with cold lips divine,
She left her pallor on thy face,
That mystic ivory face of thine;
And now I sit beside thy feet,
And all my heart is far from thee,
Dreaming of her I shall not meet,
And of the land I shall not see!
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGCGC HIHIGCGC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 01110101 11110001 010101011 0101011 01111101 110100111 01010101 01110101 11110101 11110111 010111011 11111101 11101111 01011101 01111101 11100101 11111101 1101111 110100111 01110111 01111111 10101111 01011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 856 |
Words | 171 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 222 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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