Analysis of Falling Stars.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
Only a falling star!
What was it to him
If millions of mortals were
Hurled down the dim
Dark void to the abyss?
His world was this.
Only a falling star!
The Earth was sure
To outlive him at least:
Whatever were
Their fates who yonder passed,
His star would last!
Only a falling star!
What if some day
The Earth, as in a flash,
Too, passed away,
Would, say, a Mars-man sigh
As we flamed by?
Only a world gone out
With all its care —
God! but a speck at most
In Thy great air,
As 'twere an insect's breath
Breathed out in death.
Scheme | AbcbddAefcggAhihjjklmlnn |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100101 11111 1101100 1101 111001 1111 100101 0111 11111 100 111101 1111 100101 1111 011001 1101 110111 1111 100111 1111 110111 0111 11111 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 513 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 399 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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