Analysis of What The Forester Said

Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)



The moon is but a candle-glow
That flickers thro’ the gloom:
The starry space, a castle hall:
And Earth, the children’s room,
Where all night long the old trees stand
To watch the streams asleep:
Grandmothers guarding trundle-beds:
Good shepherds guarding sheep.


Scheme ABCBDEFE
Poetic Form
Metre 01110101 110101 01010101 010101 11110111 110101 1010101 110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 267
Words 44
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 209
Words per stanza (avg) 42
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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