Analysis of Loss.



She gave the day its heart of fire,
She gave the night her soul of flame;
The sun and moon translated through
Her love as gods became.
She filled me with unearthly strength,
A power not of my own was mine;
She passed, and crumbled into dust
And ashes my divine.
The Night knows not how fair she is
Before the stars come in the sky:
It is the light within ourselves
We see ourselves and others by.


Scheme ABCBDEFEGHIH
Poetic Form
Metre 110111110 11010111 01010101 011101 11110101 010111111 11010011 010101 01111111 01011001 110101001 110010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 393
Words 80
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 310
Words per stanza (avg) 78
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 04, 2023

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Robert Crawford

Robert Crawford FRSE FBA is a Scottish poet, scholar and critic. He is currently Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.  more…

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