Analysis of My Star
Robert Browning 1812 (Camberwell) – 1889 (Venice)
All, that I know
Of a certain star
Is, it can throw
(Like the angled spar)
Now a dart of red,
Now a dart of blue
Till my friends have said
They would fain see, too,
My star that dartles the red and the blue!
Then it stops like a bird; like a flower, hangs furled:
They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it.
What matter to me if their star is a world?
Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it.
| Scheme | ABABCDCDDCEFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 10101 1111 10101 10111 10111 11111 11111 111101001 111101101011 1110011010011 11011111101 111011111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 429 |
| Words | 92 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 314 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 86 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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