Analysis of Skyfaring
William Watson 1858 (Burley in Wharfedale) – 1935 (Rottingdean)
Drifting through vacant spaces vast of sleep,
One overtook me like a flying star
And whirled me onward in his glistering car.
From shade to shade the wingèd steeds did leap,
And clomb the midnight like a mountain-steep;
Till that vague world where men and women are,
Ev'n as a rushlight down the gulfs afar,
Paled and went out, upswallowed of the deep.
Then I to that ethereal charioteer:
'O whither through the vastness are we bound?
O bear me back to yonder blinded sphere!'
Therewith I heard the ends of night resound;
And, wakened by ten thousand echoes, found
That far-off planet lying all-too near.
Scheme | ABBAABBA BCDCCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010111 101110101 011100111 1111011111 010110101 1111110101 1110110101 10111101 111101001 1101010111 1111110101 11101111 011110101 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 600 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 239 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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