Analysis of The Star's Song
Abram Joseph Ryan 1839 (Hagerstown) – 1886 (Louisville)
Flower! Flower, why repine?
God knows each creature's place;
He hides within me when I shine,
And your leaves hide His face.
And you are near as I to Him,
And you reveal as much
Of that eternal soundless hymn
Man's words may never touch.
God sings to man through all my rays
That wreathe the brow of night,
And walks with me thro' all my ways --
The everlasting light.
Flower! Flower, why repine?
He chose on lowly earth,
And not in heaven where I shine,
His Bethlehem and birth.
Flower! Flower, I see Him pass
Each hour of night and day,
Down to an altar and a Mass
Go thou! and fade away.
Fade away upon His shrine!
Thy light is brighter far
Than all the light wherewith I shine
In heaven, as a star.
Scheme | Abab xcac dede Afaf ghgh aiai |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 101011 11111 11011111 011111 01111111 010111 1101011 111101 11111111 110111 01111111 00101 101011 111101 01010111 11001 10101111 1101101 11110001 110101 1010111 111101 1101111 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 687 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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