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 |
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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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