Analysis of To Poesy



These vessels of verse, O Great Goddess, are filled with invisible tears,
With the sobs and sweat of my spirit and her desolate brooding for years;
See, I lay them -- not on thine altar, for they are unpolished and plain,
Not rounded enough by the potter, too much burnt in the furnace of pain;
But here in the dust, in the shadow, with a sudden wild leap of the heart
I kneel to tenderly kiss them, then in silence arise to depart.

I linger awhile at the portal with the light of the crimsoning sun
On my wreathless brow bearing the badges of battles I've fought in not won.
At the sound of the trumpet I've ever been found in thy thin fighting line,
And the weapons I've secretly sharpened have flashed in defence of thy shrine.
I've recked not of failure and losses, nor shrunk from the soilure of strife
For thy magical glamour was on me and art is the moonlight of life.

I move from the threshold, Great Goddess, with steps meditative and slow;
Night steals like a dream to the landscape and slips like a pall
   o'er its glow.
I carry no lamp in my bosom and dwindling in gloom is the track,
No token of man's recognition to prompt me to ever turn back.
I strike eastward to meet the great day-dawn with the soul of my soul
   by my side,
My goal though unknown is assured me, and the planet of Love is my guide.


Scheme XXAABB CCDDEE FXFGGXHH
Poetic Form
Metre 11011111011101001 101011110001001011 111111110111101 110011010111001011 11001001101011101 11110011101001101 1100110101011011 11111001011011011 101101011011011101 001011001011001111 1111100101110111 11100101110110111 111011101110001 1110110101101 1011 110110110010001101 1101101011111011 1110110111101111 111 111011011001011111
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 1,326
Words 254
Sentences 8
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 8
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 51
Words per line (avg) 13
Letters per stanza (avg) 342
Words per stanza (avg) 84
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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